Trinity Baroque the UK and Europe (e.g. Utrecht, Spitalfields, Flanders, Seville) and occasionally experiment with contemporary music (premiere of "Umbra Sumus" by the British composer Terry Mann). CD-recordings include "Rites of Spring", a musical contemplation on the season of Spring with music by Schütz, Claude Le Jeune, Sweelinck, Johann Schein; and a solo-voice recording of Bach's motets Trinity Baroque Trinity Baroque is an English group of musicians who focus on the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Founded at Trinity College, Cambridge, they are formed of a pool of 6-8 singers, sometimes expanding to larger vocal and instrumental forces. The ensemble has formed close
Baroque violin choose fingerings which result in few shifts, or small "creeping" shifts. They choose their moments for shifting carefully, using open strings and points of articulation in the music where changes of position in the left hand can be made inaudibly. While in the Romantic period audible shifts are often used (portamento and glissando) these are absent from Baroque playing. Some Baroque sources indicate the deliberate use of a higher position on a lower string, typically for a piano or misterioso effect, but low positions are preferred on the whole for greater sonority. Vibrato is used much more sparingly in Baroque