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2021-12-10 08:33:58
Christmas disc round-up: from Christmas Matins in Bavaria & Nine Lessons & Carols at King's College, Cambridge to festive brass from Canada & the Wexford Carols
[…] Elizabethan Christmas Helen Charlston Fretwork Signum Classics SIGCD680 A lovely programme that places at its centre a series of William Byrd's consort songs and is a world away from rollicking carols. Much of the music is thoughtful, perhaps solemn but Byrd's consort music is always stunning especially when so delivered as here. There are works too by Martin Peerson and Thomas Weelks, whilst Fretwork contributes a selection of purely instrumental pieces, dances by Anthony Holborne with delightful titles and fantasias by Orlando Gibbons. The whole is finely conceived to make a satisfying programme. A Minstrels Christmas Alfred Deller The Deller Consort Alto ALC1448 A feast for Alfred Deller fans, 38 tracks recorded by the Deller Consort between 1956 and 1965, combining tracks from Deller's four original albums with music varying from tradition carols, folksongs and classical. The performance style can sometimes feel old-fashioned, but there […]
2021-02-28 11:26:00
A Life On-Line: Spring songs in Oxford, time-travel at Wigmore Hall, luscious duets in Rotherhithe
[…] pianist providing a wonderfully sensitive partner to Henschel. [Oxford Lieder Festival] On Thursday, viol consort Fretwork (Richard Boothby, Asako Morikawa, Emily Ashton, Joanna Levine, Reiko Ichise viols and Silas Wollston organ) gave a recital at Wigmore Hall which transported us from the Edwardian splendours of the hall to dark-panelled rooms of the 17th century. The time was one of upheaval, but this music was contemplative and thoughtful. The recital ranged widely, Robert White (c.1538-1574), Antony Holborne (1545-1602), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), John Jenkins (1592-1678), William Lawes (1602-1645), Matthew Locke (c.1621-1677), and Henry Purcell (c.1659-1695). This was music of richness and imagination, complex and startling at times, but always absorbing. The viols bring a highly textural quality to the music, making the cunningly crafted interweaving lines into something rather meaty and almost visceral. It would have been nice to be there, but this was the next best thing [Wigmore Hall] The week […]
2018-02-16 07:29:09
Music in a Cold Climate
[…] and both would end up in Hamburg. Hamburg-based Dietrich Becker travelled both to Sweden and other German towns like Lübeck. The 30 years war inevitably caused probems and Heinrich Albert would be held captive by Swedish soldiers for a year. Gawain Glenton & In Echo But not just musicians travelled, their music did too. Trade routes meant that music by Brussels born Nicolaus a Kempis, Italian-born Vienna-based Antonio Bertali, Nuremberg-based Johann Staden and Anthony Holborne all found its way along the sea routes, thus creating a sense of common culture. Publications like Christian Hildebrant's 1607 collection Ausslesener Paduannen & Galliarden Erster Theil display this sense of shared culture and the way music moved around the sea ways, with Hildebrant's publication including a wide range of composers.The eight instrumentalists play a total of nine different instruments, and these are employed in a variety of different combinations ranging from solos by […]
2018-01-29 06:35:00
The Topping Tooters of the Town (CD review)
[…] in this case is The City Musick, led by William Lyons, who also plays shawm, bass dulcian, recorders, and bagpipes. He's joined by ten other musicians on instruments as varied as hoboy, recorders, lysard, cornett, and sackbut, with occasional solo voices thrown in for good measure. The music is enjoyable, and the fact that it's authentic adds to the fun. Here's the playlist to give you an idea of what the album's all about: Anthony Holborne (c.1545-1602) 1. The Night Watch John Adson (c.1585-1640) 2. The Bull Maske (Courtly Masquing Ayre 18) 3. Courtly Masquing Ayre 20 4. Courtly Masquing Ayre 21 Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) 5. Pavane Dolorosa 6. Galliard Doloroso Anon., arr. William Lyons 7. The Quadran Pavan 8. Turkeyloney 9. The Earl of Essex Measures 10. Tinternell 11. The Old Almain 12. The Queen's Alman Anthony Holborne 13. The […]
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