Byrd: Consort Songs

Byrd: Consort Songs

Emma Kirkby / Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7383 [CD]

Contents:

1. My mind to me a kingdom is
2. Fantasia a 6 No. 3
3. O Lord, how vain
4. Content is rich
5. Constant Penelope
6. Pavan a 6
7. Galliard a 6
8. My mistress had a little dog
9. O that most rare breast
10. The noble famous Queen
11. Fantasia a 4 No. 3
12. Out of the orient crystal skies
13. O Lord, bow down thine heav'nly eyes
14. Fantasia a 6 No. 2
15. Truth at the first
16. O you that hear this voice
17. He that all earthly pleasure scorns

Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano); Richard Boothby, Richard Campbell, Wendy Gillespie, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, Susanna Pell (viols)

Playing time: 75'

Recording date: January 2004 (Suffolk)

Excerpts:
[5], [10] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8171 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 9: Chansons, Madrigaux & Songs à la Renaissance (1500-1600) / Songs & Madrigals from the Renaissance - Chansons de la Renaissance / Songs of the Renaissance

Some other recordings devoted to Byrd's songs, some also featuring consort accompaniment:

Byrd: Consort Songs

Robin Blaze / Concordia
Hyperion 67397

Byrd: With lilies white

Consort Songs & Music for viols
Gérard Lesne / Wieland Kuijken / Ensemble Orlando Gibbons
Virgin Veritas 45264

English Consort Music - I

Byrd: Consort Songs
James Bowman / Ricercar Consort - Philippe Pierlot
Ricercar 206442

Byrdsong

Songs and Consorts by William Byrd
Geraldine McGreevy / Ian Partridge / Phantasm
Simax 1191

Byrd: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (1588)

The Consort of Musicke - Anthony Rooley
L'Oiseau Lyre (Florilegium) 443 187

Songs and Sonnets

Music for Voice and Viols by William Byrd
Rachel Platt / Concordia - Mark Levy
Meridian 84271

Music of William Byrd

Tamara Crout, Louis Bagger, The New York Consort of Viols - Judith Davidoff
Lyrichord LEMS 8015

Byrd: Songs and Ensemble Music

The English Consort of Viols / Lynne Dawson
Musicaphon 56808

Byrd: Songs of sundrie natures

Music for voices and viols
Hilliard Ensemble / London Baroque
EMI Reflexe 47961

Byrd: Consort Music & Songs

bFive Recorder Consort
Coviello Classics 91725

Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music / Songs and Anthems

Rose Consort of Viols, Red Byrd, Tessa Bonner, Timothy Roberts
Naxos 8.550604

Some of the above recordings include other genres such as consort & keyboard music. Another such recording which includes motets and has a chronological focus:

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

This is the beginning of a series. Later volumes will be noted in the above cited link.

A recording devoted specifically to Byrd's instrumental consort music:

Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Phantasm
Linn Records 372

A more general consort recording by the present ensemble, including references to many other recordings:

In Nomine

16th C. English music for viols
Fretwork
Amon Ra 29

Finally, some broader collections of consort songs:

Consort Songs

Connor Burrowes / Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
Channel Classics 9196

Shakespeare's Musick

Songs & Dances from Shakepeare's Plays
Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 446 687

Ye Sacred Muses

Consort Songs and Instrumental Music by Byrd & Gibbons
The Royal Consort / David Cordier
Globe 5159

A Candle in the Dark

Elizabethan Songs & Consort Music
Newberry Consort - Mary Springfels
Harmonia Mundi USA 907140

Consorts and Consort Songs

Music by William Byrd and His Contemporaries
Jill Feldman / Il Concerto delle Viole / Kees Boeke, et al.
Olive Music 004

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