Byrd: Virginals & Consorts

Byrd: Virginals & Consorts
Skip Sempé / Capriccio Stravagante
Astrée 8611

Contents:

  1. Fantasia à 6 (viols)
  2. Pavan Kinbourough Good (harpsichord)
  3. Galliard Kinbourough Good (harpsichord)
  4. The Queen's Alman (viols)
    Hugh Ashton's Ground (harpsichord)
  5. Pavan à 6 (mixed consort)
  6. Galliard à 6 (mixed consort)
  7. Susato: Pavan Mille Regretz (recorders, viols)
  8. Pavan (MB 14; harpsichord)
  9. Galliard (MB 14; harpsichord)
  10. Browning (recorders)
  11. Pavan à 5 (viols)
  12. The Carman's Whistle (harpsichord)
  13. The Irish March (harpsichord)
  14. My Lord of Oxenford's Maske (mixed consort)
  15. Pavan (MB 17; harpsichord)
  16. A Fancie (MB 25; harpsichord)
  17. Praeludium & Ground (viols)
  18. Pavan Tregian (harpsichord)
  19. Galliard Tregian (harpsichord)
  20. Arbeau: Pavan Belle qui tiens ma vie (mixed consort)
    French Corantos (MB 21; harpsichord)

Performers: Skip Sempé (harpsichord, direction); Jay Bernfeld (treble viol); Carol Lewis, Friederike Heumann, Anne-Marie Lasla, Sylvie Brochard, Sylvie Moquet (viols); Patricia Lavail, Gérard Scharapan, Christine Vossart, Françoise Defours, Jean Gaillard, Marie-Noëlle Visse (recorders); Mike Fentross (chitarrone), Françoise Johannel (harp)

Playing time: 73'

Recording date: March 1997 (Paris)

Excerpts:
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This is a very virtuosic approach to Byrd's instrumental music, featuring more sonic contrasts than usual, and including two pavans from other sources.

Other recordings on Astrée by the present ensemble:

Canto Mediterraneo
Guillemette Laurens / Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
Astrée 8548
Schenk: L'Echo du Danube
Sonatas, Fantazia & Suite
Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
Astrée 8566
Bach / Vivaldi: Concerti & Praeludia
Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
Astrée 8645
Canto a mi caballero
The Tradition of Antonio de Cabezón
Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
Astrée 8651
Handel: Cantatas & Opera Arias
Marí Bayo / Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
Astrée 8674
Couperin: Concert dans le goût théâtral
Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
Astrée 8820
Venezia Stravagantissima
Capriccio Stravagante - Skip Sempé
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Todd M. McComb