MALMESBURY Abbey Music Society presents Fontanella Recorder Quintet on Saturday, July 8 at Malmesbury Abbey.

Fontanella is a UK-based recorder quintet specialising in historical performance, new music and education projects. The Quintet play an impressive array of more than 30 recorders of all shapes and sizes.

Featuring five of the UK’s leading specialist professional artists, Fontanella's lively concert programmes span 600 years of music, celebrating the long history of the recorder from the medieval period right up to the present day.

They perform on a specialist array of instruments of every shape and size, from a beautiful 15-piece renaissance consort to a fascinating set of contemporary Paetzold ‘square’ basses.

  •  Saturday, July 8. Malmesbury Abbey. 7.30pm. Tickets (£15/£5 students) and further information from mamsmusic.co.uk