Chicago's Newberry Consort is one of the city's leading early music groups, offering concerts and recordings of consistently high quality since its founding in 1986. The group is associated with Chicago's Newberry Library and has based its programming in part on the rich lode of music manuscripts among that private library's holdings.
Among those holdings is the music library of the Venetian nobleman Count Pio Resse, as well as a variety of other rare printed works from the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. University of Chicago musicologist Howard Mayer Brown, who ...