The Early Byrd: Early works for voices, viols and virginals

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This disc adopts an imaginative approach to programming Byrd's music by presenting works in different genres grouped together to demonstrate a single stage in his development. It includes Latin... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Apr 1995
Catalogue No: CHAN0578
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 72 minutes

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Byrd: Attollite portas

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

Byrd: Triumph with pleasant melody

Work length3:34

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork

Byrd: O Lord, how vain

Work length6:55

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork

Byrd: All in a Garden Green, FVB 104

Work length4:08

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Sophie Yates

Byrd: Domine secundum actum meum

Work length7:32

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

Byrd: Truth at the first

Work length2:59

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork

Byrd: Who likes to love: Who Likes to Love

Work length4:43

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork

Byrd: Wolsey`s Wilde

Work length1:20

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Sophie Yates

Byrd: Da mihi auxilium

Work length6:40

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

Byrd: Farewell, my false love

Work length7:00

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork

Byrd: O Mistrys Myne, FVB 66, T. 488

Work length4:40

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Sophie Yates

Byrd: Miserere mihi, Domini

Work length2:16

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

Byrd: My mind to me a kingdom is, T. 224

Work length6:02

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork

Byrd: La volte

Work length1:28

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Sophie Yates

Byrd: Ad Dominum cum tribularer

Work length8:55

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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

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2010

This disc adopts an imaginative approach to programming Byrd's music by presenting works in different genres grouped together to demonstrate a single stage in his development. It includes Latin motets, keyboard dances and variations on popular songs of the day, and sacred and secular songs (and a dialogue) with viols. There's so much here that wins our admiration: the dazzling contrapuntal elaboration of Attollite portas, the close-knit texture of Da mihiauxilium and the massive Ad Dominum cum tribularer; the exuberant variations on O mistressmine (neatly played by Sophie Yates) and Byrd's melodic gift in the strophic O Lord, how vain.
The singers' adoption of period pronunciation – for example, 'rejoice' emerges as 'rejwace' – affects the tuning and the musical sound, it's claimed here, but without rather clearer enunciation the point remains not proven. Probably more upsetting to many will be the Anglicised pronunciation of Latin.
The viol consort gives stylish support and is well balanced, the Fagiolini sopranos occasionally 'catch the mike' on high notes (eg in the passionate pleas of Miserere mihi, Domine), and the recorded level of the virginals might have been a little higher without falsifying its tone. But these are minor criticisms of a most rewarding disc.

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