Group

Fires of Love, the critically acclaimed early music quartet specialising in innovative programmes of Renaissance and early Baroque chamber music,  combining a stunning array of instruments with soprano and baritone voices.

Fires of Love present music of the period 1500-1700 in an accessible and historically informed style. The music is colourful, dramatic and lively.  Informative programmes focus on lute and guitar songs, set amongst instrumental ensembles, solos, recent discoveries and the group’s own arrangements.   The repertoire spans the breadth of Europe; the unique voice of the Spanish renaissance, the royal courts of war torn 17th century France, the flowering of the Italian baroque and the golden age of Elizabethan lute song.  Instruments include lutes, archlute, theorbo, vihuela, baroque guitar, four-course guitar, recorders (from bass to garklein) and percussion.

‘Style and panache. An excellent group.’ *The Herald*

‘An impressive collection of talent.’ *The Scotsman*

2008 saw the release of Chansons a Plaisir, the group’s second recording  from Delphian Records.

‘..A FITTING WAY TO MARK THE QUARTET’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY…A MULTIPLICITY OF COLOURS AND TEXTURES’ -  from the Goldberg Magazine review

Some photographs of the recording sessions in Crichton Collegiate Church, Midlothian.