Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Fretwork
Virgin Veritas 45031

Contents:

1. Prelude and Ground (à 5)
2. Christe redemptor (à 4)
3. Sermone blando (à 3)
   Sermone blando (à 4) No. 1
4. Pavan and Galliard (à 5)
5. Fantasia (à 5) 'two in one'
6. In Nomine (à 4) No. 1
7. In Nomine (à 4) No. 2
8. Fantasia (à 3) No. 1
9. Fantasia (à 3) No. 2
10. Fantasia (à 3) No. 3
11. Fantasia (à 4) No. 1
12. Browning (à 5)
13. Pavan and Galliard (à 6)
14. In Nomine (à 5) No. 1
15. In Nomine (à 5) No. 2
16. In Nomine (à 5) No. 3
17. In Nomine (à 5) No. 4
18. In Nomine (à 5) No. 5
19. Fantasia (à 6) No. 3
20. Christe qui lux (à 4) No. 1
    Christe qui lux (à 4) No. 2
    Christe qui lux (à 4) No. 3
21. Te lucis (à 4) No. 2, verse 2
22. Miserere (à 4)
23. Fantasia (à 6) No. 2

Performers: Wendy Gillespie, Richard Campbell, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, Richard Boothby, Elizabeth Liddle, Christopher Wilson (lute)

Playing time: 76'

Original releases: 1989, 1990; repackaged with new material: 1994

Byrd's consort music is one of the high-points in this uniquely English repertory. The present recording is quite welcome for its rendition of his complete output.

The majority of the tracks on the present disc were included in Fretwork's earlier collections of Byrd & Dowland consort music (which also included a few songs):

Goe Nightly Cares

Dowland, Byrd: Dances & Songs
Fretwork
Virgin Veritas Editon "2-for-1" 61561 (2 CDs)

A more general program, including Byrd's consort music performed on different types of instruments (in addition to viols) as well as his keyboard music:

Byrd: Virginals & Consorts

Skip Sempé / Capriccio Stravagante
Astrée 8611

Another consort program highlighting Byrd:

Still Music of the Spheres

Consort Music by William Byrd and Richard Mico
Phantasm
Simax 1143

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