Friederike Chylek

Friederike Chylek – Tallis, Byrd & Gibbons: Keyboard Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:12 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oehms Classics

William Byrd’s work stands out above all for the variety of genres and structural principles. This is particularly evident in his unique keyboard music. The influence that Byrd also had on the continental development of piano music remains remarkable. To commemorate the quadricentenary of Byrd’s death, this album presents a special collection of the works of Byrd as well as two of his close contemporaries, by his long-time mentor Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) and the younger Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). With William Byrd, Friederike Chylek follows up on her last albums Byrd –Keyboard works (OC1724) From Byrd To Byrd (OC1704) and Time stands still (OC1864). Friederike Chylek plays on an organ by Johann Christoph Leu, Klosterkirche Rheinau, 1715 and on a harpsichord by Boccalari, Napoli 1699, restored by Matthias Griewisch, 2019.

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Friederike Chylek – From Byrd to Byrd (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oehms Classics

From Byrd to Byrd is the funny legend that perches on the cover of this album from German harpsichord player Friederike Chylek, who studied under Jesper Christensen at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where she currently lives. As well as being a recitalist she works with various baroque ensembles and forms a duet with violinist Simon Standage with whom she records for Chandos.

William Byrd’s range and formidable musical inventiveness has influenced many English harpsichordists down the years. Often thought of as “the father of English music”, he was one of the most important composers in the era of Shakespeare, protected by Queen Elizabeth I who granted him the rare monopoly of musical printing in England for more than twenty years.

This privilege allowed his music to spread and influence a whole generation of musicians, in particular his students John Bull, Thomas Morley and Peter Philips. Recorded in 2017 and based on a Matthias Griewisch copy of a Ruckers harpsichord from 1624, this anthology by Friederike Chylek paints a very rich panorama of a profusion of English music, savouring the works of Dowland, Locke, Lawes, Purcell, Gibbons and Morley, bookended by that of William Byrd of whom everything is an echo, and two whom everything returns in the end. –  François Hudry

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Friederike Chylek – William Byrd: Keyboard Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:00 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Oehms Classics

William Byrd’s work stands out above all for the variety of genres and structural principles. This is particularly evident in his unique keyboard music. The influence that Byrd also had on the continental development of piano music remains remarkable. With William Byrd, Friederike Chylek follows up on her last albums “From Byrd To Byrd” and “Time stands still”. Friederike Chylek plays on a copy of the harpsichord by Matthias Griewisch after Ioannes Ruckers, 1624.
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