Early Byrd
- The Early Byrd
- Early works for voices, viols and virginals by William Byrd,
Vol. 1
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth / Fretwork / Sophie Yates
Chandos Chaconne 0578
Contents:
- Attollite portas (6 voices)
- Triumph with pleasant melody (2 countertenors, viols)
- O Lord, how vain (soprano, viols)
- All in a Garden Green (virginal)
- Domine secundum actum meum (6 voices)
- Truth at the first (soprano, viols)
- Who likes to love (soprano, viols)
- Wolsey's Wilde (virginal)
- Da mihi auxilium (6 voices)
- Farewell, false love (countertenor, viols)
- O Mistrys Myne (virginal)
- Miserere mihi, Domine (6 voices)
- My mind to me a kingdom is (soprano, viols)
- La volta (virginal)
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer (8 voices)
Performers: Anna Crookes, Carys Lane (sopranos), Robin Blaze, Richard
Wyn Roberts (countertenors), Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Hugh Wilson
(tenors), Roderick Williams (baritone), Matthew Brook, Charles Gibbs
(basses), Richard Campbell, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, Richard
Boothby (viols), Sophie Yates (virginals)
Playing time: 73'
Recording date: November 1994
As the title says, these are early pieces by Byrd. The next
volume in the series:
- The Caged Byrd
- Music for voices, viols & harpsichord from a time of
persecution, Vol. 2
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth / Concordia / Sophie Yates
Chandos Chaconne 0609
Note that the virginal performances are very dimly recorded
here, and are almost inaudible next to the motets.
Other recordings by this ensemble:
- Fire and Ashes
- Monteverdi: Madrigals, Vol.2
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth
Chandos Chaconne 0749
- The Madrigal in Venice
- Politics, Dialogues & Pastorales
I Fagiolini / English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Robert
Hollingworth
Chandos Chaconne 0697
- The Triumphs of Oriana
- I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth
Chandos 0682
- Tomkins: Music Divine
- I Fagiolini
Chandos Chaconne 0680
- Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso
- I Fagiolini
Chandos 5026 (DVD)
- Insalata
- I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth
Metronome 1004
- All the King's Men
- Henry VIII & the Princes of the Renaissance
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth / Concordia - Mark Levy
Metronome 1012
- All the King's Horses
- Knights, Poets and Patrons of the Renaissance Courts
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth / Concordia - Mark Levy
Metronome 1013
- Pastyme with Good Companye
- I Fagiolini / Forbury Consort
Griffin 2365
- Simunye
- Music for a Harmonious World
I Fagiolini / SDASA Chorale
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Todd M. McComb