The vio­la da gam­ba ensem­ble Hathor Consort brings us some of Alfonso Ferrabosco II’s most inno­v­a­tive works. Under the gold­en wings of Elizabeth the First, the Italian Englishman devel­oped into one of the most influ­en­tial com­posers of his time. He remained his whole life in the ser­vice of the ​‘Virgin Queen’, writ­ing for her extrav­a­gant masques and excep­tion­al­ly refined con­sort music.