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Consort music

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"Apt for Viols and Voices." This is how the fusion of voices and viols is mentioned in many sources from the English Renaissance. This album is dedicated to two of the most important composers of this era who left us a significant body of "consorts" for viols in 4 to 6 parts, as well as moving "consort songs." Both served the court: Elizabeth I for the first, James I for the second. The elder remains faithful to the basic principles of polyphony learned from his master Thomas Tallis, for whom he wrote the poignant elegy Ye Sacred Muses. The younger, a virtuoso of the viol, leads his instrument into new paths and develops his polyphony in bold ways.

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Product information

  • Album Consort music
  • Artist William Byrd
  • Release date 2007-09-01
  • Label RICERCAR
  • Format CD
  • Country Europe
  • EAN 5400439002562
  • Number of discs 2
  • Number of tracks 34

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Disc 1

  1. O Death Rock Me Asleep
    3:14
  2. Come Tread The Paths
    3:21
  3. Quis Me Statim
    2:26
  4. My Little Sweet Darling
    1:26
  5. Fantasia à 6 (II)
    5:25
  6. Wretched Albinus
    3:28
  7. Rejoice Unto The Lord
    3:33
  8. Fair Britain Isle
    6:33
  9. In Nomine à 4
    2:28
  10. Born Is The Babe
    2:15
  11. Triumph With Plesant Melody
    3:39
  12. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
    5:43
  13. Fantasia à 5
    3:05
  14. Ye Sacred Muses
    3:53
  15. Complain With Tears
    2:31
  16. Fie, Fie, My Fate
    1:46
  17. In Paradise
    6:13

Disc 2

  1. Heare Me, O God, For Voice & 4 Viols
    7:10
  2. In Nomine à 5
    3:59
  3. In Nomine Through All Parts For 6 Viols
    6:11
  4. Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sung
    3:07
  5. Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sung
    8:52
  6. This Merry Pleasant Spring
    2:20
  7. Dovehouse Pavan, For 5 Viols
    4:29
  8. Cuckoo
    1:24
  9. When Daphne From Fair Phoebus Did Fly, Consort Song
    4:48
  10. Fantasia For 4 Viols
    3:46
  11. Alas, Alack, My Heart Is Woe, Consort Song
    2:20
  12. Fantasia For 6 Viols No. 3
    4:14
  13. Why Stays The Bridegroom, Consort Song For Voice & Continuo
    2:09
  14. Pavane
    4:24
  15. Why Stays The Bridegroom, Consort Song For Voice & Continuo
    2:28
  16. Fantasia On The Hexachord
    4:27
  17. Farewell The Bliss
    4:47

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