"The Consort performed its complex polyphony with exquisite expressiveness and unadorned veracity"
Bruegel Consort is a five-part early music vocal ensemble specialising in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century sacred polyphony. Bruegel Consort is the recipient of the Stile Antico Ensemble Development Bursary 2024-26.
The ensemble was founded in 2023 by Lilly Vadaneaux in Cambridge, where its members sang together in college choirs and in the Cambridge Early Music Consort, run by Edward Wickham and Matthew Gouldstone. Bruegel Consort has been selected to perform at the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe in both 2024 and 2025. The programmes of English polyphony presented there included Tudor composer William Rasar’s Mass Christe Jesu, a work given its modern-day UK premiere by Bruegel Consort, from an edition created by tenor Nick Walters.
-Cambridge Independent
Listen to this excerpt from the Credo of William Rasar’s Mass Christe Jesu, from our performance in Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, in May 2024