Songs for a Tudor King

Songs for a Tudor King

Fayrfax / Browne / Cornysh, etc.
Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier
Saga Records 5461

Contents:

1. Anon: Small pathes to the greenwood
2. Fayrfax: I love unloved
3. Cornysh: Woefully arrayed
4. Anon: Madame defrain
5. Fayrfax: Benedicite, what dreamed I
6. Cornysh: Ay besherew you
7. Browne: Margaret meek
8. Fayrfax: Somewhat musing
9. Fayrfax: That was my woe
10. Sheryngham: Ah gentle Jesu
11. Fayrfax: Most clear of colour
12. Cornysh: Hoyda, hoyda jolly rutterkin

Performers: Judith Nelson (soprano) / Hilliard Ensemble

Original release: 1978; re-released on CD: 1990; repackaged on CD: 1994

These songs are a short-lived and unique example of English songwriting of the period, vastly removed from that of the Continent. The principal source is the Fayrfax manuscript.

The major composers in the style are William Cornysh (c.1465-1523) and Robert Fayrfax (c.1464-1521).

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