Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures | Inventa Records INV1011

Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures

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Label: Inventa Records

Cat No: INV1011

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th April 2023

Contents

Artists

Alamire
Fretwork
Jacob Heringman (lute)
Lynda Sayce (lute)

Conductor

David Skinner

Works

Byrd, William

Songs of Sundrie Natures (1589)

Artists

Alamire
Fretwork
Jacob Heringman (lute)
Lynda Sayce (lute)

Conductor

David Skinner

About

Following the critically acclaimed album of Byrd’s 1588 collection, Alamire returns with the completion of their survey of the early song collections with the 1589 collection, in this, the composer’s 400th anniversary year.

Alamire is joined by viol consort Fretwork and director David Skinner.

Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In 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.’ 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.

Reviews

Reviewing these ensembles’ recording of Byrd’s 1588 Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs (6/21), I wondered whether they intended to survey all of the composer’s English-texted prints. Here’s the answer, and it’s mightily impressive. Their complete Songs of Sundrie Natures follows the composer’s grouping into numbers of voices, beginning with three and thence on to four, five and six (though allowing some reordering within each group). ... One looks forward to hearing them all tackle this set’s eponymous successor, published nearly a quarter of a century later.  Fabrice Fitch
Gramophone June 2023
Reviewing these ensembles’ recording of Byrd’s 1588 Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs (6/21), I wondered whether they intended to survey all of the composer’s English-texted prints. Here’s the answer, and it’s mightily impressive. Their complete Songs of Sundrie Natures follows the composer’s grouping into numbers of voices, beginning with three and thence on to four, five and six (though allowing some reordering within each group). ... One looks forward to hearing them all tackle this set’s eponymous successor, published nearly a quarter of a century later.  Fabrice Fitch
Gramophone June 2023
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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