Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Fretwork
Virgin Veritas 45031

Contents:

1. Prelude and Ground (à 5)
2. Christe redemptor (à 4)
3. Sermone blando (à 3)
   Sermone blando (à 4) No. 1
4. Pavan and Galliard (à 5)
5. Fantasia (à 5) 'two in one'
6. In Nomine (à 4) No. 1
7. In Nomine (à 4) No. 2
8. Fantasia (à 3) No. 1
9. Fantasia (à 3) No. 2
10. Fantasia (à 3) No. 3
11. Fantasia (à 4) No. 1
12. Browning (à 5)
13. Pavan and Galliard (à 6)
14. In Nomine (à 5) No. 1
15. In Nomine (à 5) No. 2
16. In Nomine (à 5) No. 3
17. In Nomine (à 5) No. 4
18. In Nomine (à 5) No. 5
19. Fantasia (à 6) No. 3
20. Christe qui lux (à 4) No. 1
    Christe qui lux (à 4) No. 2
    Christe qui lux (à 4) No. 3
21. Te lucis (à 4) No. 2, verse 2
22. Miserere (à 4)
23. Fantasia (à 6) No. 2

Performers: Wendy Gillespie, Richard Campbell, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, Richard Boothby, Elizabeth Liddle, Christopher Wilson (lute)

Playing time: 76'

Recording dates: December 1987, April 1989, March 1993; original release dates: 1989, 1990; repackaged with new material: 1994

The majority of the tracks on the present disc were included in Fretwork's earlier collections of Byrd & Dowland consort music (which also included a few songs):

Goe Nightly Cares

Dowland, Byrd: Dances & Songs
Fretwork
Virgin Veritas Editon "2-for-1" 61561 (2 CDs)

A more general program, including Byrd's consort music performed on different types of instruments (in addition to viols) as well as his keyboard music:

Byrd: Virginals & Consorts

Skip Sempé / Capriccio Stravagante
Astrée 8611

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