Holborne

Holborne: Pavans, Galliards, Almains, etc.

The Dowland Consort - Jakob Lindberg
BIS 469

Contents:

1. The Choise
2. the widowes myte
3. Heres paternus
   Muy linda
4. Infernum
   Galliard
5. Almaine
   Fantasia
6. Paradizo
   The Sighes
7. The night watch
8. Almayne
9. Galliard
10. Pavan
    Galliard
11. Prelude
    Quadro Pavan
12. Pavan
    Galliard
13. As it fell on a holie Eve
    Heigh Ho holiday
14. Spero
15. The Maydens of the Countrey
    The Spanish Pavane
    A Jyg
16. Last will and testament
    Galliard
17. Postuma
    Galliard
18. Lullaby
19. The Honie-suckle
20. The Fairie-round
21. Pavan
    Galliard

Performers: Wendy Gillespie (treble & alto viols), Sarah Cunningham (tenor & alto viols), Sarah Groser (small bass & tenor viols), Richard Cunningham (consort bass viol), Alison Crum (great bass viol), Jakob Lindberg (lute, bandora, cittern)

Playing time: 69'

Recording date: December 1989 & February 1990 (Petruskyrkan, Stocksund, Sweden)

The consort pieces on this recording are taken from Holborne's large printed collection of 1599. They were considered suitable for viols, violins, or wind instruments. Many of them are lighter in character than much of the consort output of the time.

Two other recordings:

Holborne: The teares of the Muses

Elizabethan Consort Music, Vol. II
Hespèrion XXI - Jordi Savall
Alia Vox 9813

Holborne: The Fruit of Love

L'Achéron - François Joubert-Caillet
Ricercar 339

Similar programs, featuring recorders & violins respectively:

Holborne: The Image of Melancholy

Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
Channel Classics 2891

Holborne: My Selfe

16th Century Pavans, Galliards, and Almains
Paul O'Dette / The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi USA 907238

Holborne also wrote a substantial amount of music for plucked string instruments, together with Dowland's, the largest such output in England. Some is included on the present recording. Other such recordings:

Holburns Passion

Music for lute, cittern & bandora
Jacob Heringman
AS&V Gaudeamus 173

Holborne: Pieces for Lute

Federico Marincola
Pierre Vérany 795112

Holborne / Robinson - Pavans & Galliards

Christopher Wilson / Shirley Rumsey
Naxos 8.553874

Holborne also wrote pieces specifically for cittern & bandora.

Track & performers information from Frank Cone.

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