Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr. William Byrd: Consort Music

William Byrd (1543-1623) Quis me statim; Wrteched Albinus; Rejoice unto the Lord; Fair Britain Isle; Triumph with Plesant Melody; Lullaby, my Sweet Little Baby; Ye Sacred Muses; Fantasia à 6; In Nomine à 4; Anonymes: O Death Rock me Asleep; Come Tread the Paths; My Little Sweet Darling; Born is the Babe; Complain with Tears; Fie, Fie, my Fate;In Paradise; Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sung; This Merry Pleasant Soring; When Daphne; Cuckoo; Alas, alack, my Heart is Woe; Farewell the Bliss; Fantasia à 5; Alfonso Ferrabaosco II (ca.1578-1628) Four-Note Pavan; Why Stays the Bridegroom; In Nomine à 5; Fantasia; In Nomine à 6; Dances for lyra-viols; Dovehouse Pavan à 5; Fantasia à 4; Fantasia à 6; Pavan for lyra-viol; Fantasia on the Hexachord

«Apt for Viols and Voices». That's how the fusion of voices and viols is mentioned in several documents of the English renaissance. This CD is devoted to two of the most important composers of that period who've bequeathed us an important body of "consorts" for 4 and 6 part viols as well as some very moving "consort songs". Both were employed at the royal court. The former Elisabeth the 1st, the latter by James the 1st. The elder remains faithful to the basic principles of polyphony acquired with his master Thomas Tallis for whom he writes the poignant elegy "Ye Sacred Muses". The second musician, on the other hand, a viola virtuoso, leads his instrument into new avenues and develops his polyphony through audacious experiments.

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