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The Hilliard Ensemble: Songs for a Tudor King

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Label: Saga Classics
Released: 1978
Time:
 49:35
Category: Calssical
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.hilliardensemble.demon.co.uk
Appears with: Jan Garbarek
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Anonymous: Small Pathes To The Greenwood - 5:55
[2] Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521): I Love Unloved - 1:43
[3] William Cornysh (?-1523): Woefully Arrayed - 8:05
[4] Anonymous: Madam Defrain - 4:21
[5] Robert Fayrfax: Benedicite, What Dreamed I - 2:25
[6] William Cornysh: Ay Besherew You - 2:05
[7] John Browne (Fl. C. 1490): Margaret Meek - 4:45
[8] Robert Fayrfax: Somewhat Musing - 4:14
[9] Robert Fayrfax: That Was My Woe - 2:06
[10] Sheryngham: Ah Gentle Jesu - 7:25
[11] Robert Fayrfax: Most Clear Of Colour 1:55
[12] William Cornysh: Hoyda, Hoyda Jolly Rutterkin - 3:50

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David James - Counter-Tenor on [1-11]
Paul Elliott - Tenor on [1-12]
Leigh Nixon - Tenor on [3,10,11,12]
Paul Hillier - Baritone on [1-6,8,10,12]

Judith Nelson - Soprano on [2,3,7,10]

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1978 LP Saga Classics 5461
1990 CD Qualiton 3378
1994 CD CNR 8714221041989
2007 CD CNR Entertainment - 22 223312



This disc presents an unusual program of mostly secular works by several composers who are little known today, but who were important figures during the 15th and 16th centuries. These songs for two, three, and four parts, cover a variety of subjects--courtly love, satire, humor, and religious themes--and vary in form, following poetic conventions and stylized rhythmic schemes. Although most of these songs are secular, this doesn't imply a lack of formality. The texts and their accompanying music dictate a certain refinement in performance that points toward the palace or private home rather than the tavern. Although we know little about the lives of the represented composers--Robert Fayrfax, William Cornysh, and John Browne (in addition to Anonymous)--the character and quality of their music confirms their place among the most distinguished musicians of era. They are fortunate to have such devoted and musically accomplished advocates as the Hilliard Ensemble.

David Vernier - Amazon.com
 

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