Founded by Robert Hollingworth at Oxford in 1986,[2] the group won the UK Early Music Network’s Young Artists’ Competition in 1988 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2006.
It has an international reputation for presenting music in unusual ways, especially for featuring in John La Bouchardière's production and film The Full Monteverdi, worldwide.
The group has recorded the recently found 40-part mass (1566) by Striggio.
The CD was released in March 2011 and won the Early Music category in the 2011 Gramophone Awards and a Diapason d'Or de l'Année.
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