Fretwork, David Skinner & Alamire – Byrd 158 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fretwork, David Skinner & Alamire – Byrd 158 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:19 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In the following year he writes that he had ‘bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.’

Tracklist:
1-1. Alamire – Lord in Thy Rage Rebuke Me Not a3 (02:15)
1-2. Alamire – Right Blessed are They a3 (02:18)
1-3. Alamire – Lord in They Wrath Correct Me Not a3 (02:05)
1-4. Alamire – O God Which Art Most Merciful a3 (02:25)
1-5. Alamire – Lord Hear My Prayer Instantly a3 (01:37)
1-6. Alamire – From Depth of Sin a3 (02:04)
1-7. Alamire – Attend Mine Humble Prayer Lord a3 (02:48)
1-8. Alamire – Susanna Fair a3 (02:38)
1-9. Alamire – The Nightingale a3 (02:18)
1-10. Alamire – When Younglings First a3 (03:32)
1-11. Alamire – Upon a Summer’s Day a3 (03:08)
1-12. Alamire – The Greedy Hawk a3 (01:42)
1-13. Clare Wilkinson – Is Love a Boy? a4 (05:06)
1-14. Alamire – Wounded I Am a4 (07:16)
1-15. Alamire – From Citheron the Warlike Boy is Fled a4 (06:55)
1-16. Alamire – O Lord My God a4 (03:14)
1-17. Alamire – While That the Sun a4 (01:49)
2-1. Alamire – Weeping Full Sore a5 (06:09)
2-2. Alamire – Penelope That Longed For the Sight a5 (03:21)
2-3. Alamire – Compel the Hawk a5 (03:08)
2-4. Clare Wilkinson – See Those Sweet Eyes a5 (03:45)
2-5. Alamire – When I was Otherwise a5 (04:00)
2-6. Alamire – When First by Force a5 (02:21)
2-7. Alamire – I Thought Love Had Been a Boy a5 (01:06)
2-8. Clare Wilkinson – O Dear Life a5 (03:44)
2-9. Martha Mclorinan – From Virgin’s Womb a5 (09:39)
2-10. Alamire – Of Gold all Burnished a5 (04:47)
2-11. Alamire – Behold How Good a6 (03:29)
2-12. Martha Mclorinan – An Earthly Tree a Heavenly Fruit a6 (07:27)
2-13. Martha Mclorinan – Who Made Thee Hob a6 (01:28)
2-14. Martha Mclorinan – And Think Ye Nymphs a6 (01:49)
2-15. Alamire – If In Thine Heart a6 (02:54)
2-16. Alamire – Unto the Hills Mine Eyes I Lift a6 (04:09)
2-17. Martha Mclorinan – Christ Rising Again a6 (05:53)

Personnel:
This 1589 collection, therefore, offers songs of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts, ‘to serue for all companies and voyces: whereof some are easie and plaine to sing, [while] other
more hard and dificult.’ Byrd clearly sought to be as inclusive as possible for all musicians, amateur and professional.

With the 1589 collection, Byrd’s complete early song collections are now committed to recording. Together they provide a variety themes and textures, as well as vocal and instrumental combinations, demonstrating the richness of Elizabethan courtly music.

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