New Album Releases: WILLIAM BYRD - MY LADYE NEVELLS BOOKE (Pieter-Jan Belder)

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Artist:
Pieter-Jan Belder

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
03:21:13

Record Label:
Brilliant Classics

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
July 28, 2023




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Product Description: The only complete available recording of a landmark in Elizabethan keyboard music. With a huge catalogue of Brilliant Classics recordings to his credit, Pieter-Jan Belder has won particular praise for his ambitious project to record the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (95915), a treasury of English keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean era. Now he focuses his attention on the greatest English composer of that age, with a volume dedicated to William Byrd, and to his largest single collection of music for the keyboard. Byrd's vocal works would have assured him a place in history as the greatest English composer of his generation. Yet he was also arguably the outstanding composer of his time in the realm of instrumental music - probably the first musician to achieve supreme stature simultaneously in music for voices, for instrumental consort, and for solo keyboard instruments. Though it has passed through the hands of many celebrated figures such as Elizabeth I herself, My Lady Nevells Booke has belonged continuously tomembers of the Nevill family since 1830, and has been kept at the family seat near Tunbridge Wells in Kent. When Christopher Hogwood made the first complete recording of its contents, he wrote that it 'occupies a unique and privileged position from the musical, musicological, chronological and calligraphic points of view.' The copying of the pieces was undertaken and completed in September 1591 by John Baldwin, a clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, and Lady Nevell’s name was incorporated into the design of the cover as well as the pieces dedicated to her opening each of the volume’s three main sections. The Lady Nevell in question was a generous, capable and cultivated woman who endowed a charitable school and an Oxford college. Like The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, My Ladye Nevells Booke embraces the most popular genres of its day. Its contents are typical fare for English Renaissance composers: dances, variation sets, marches, contrapuntal fantasies andprogrammatic pieces, and the repertory comes from a period beginning in the mid 1560s. Byrd makes each of these genres his own with consummate ingenuity; the variety and the beauty of the collection as a whole rewards players and listeners alike. The CD booklet contains an extensive essay on My Ladye Nevells Booke by Jon Baxendale, who is co-editor of the latest edition of the score

TRACK LIST:

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1 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: I. My Ladye Nevels Grownde, MB57 . (05:40)

2 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: II. Qui passe for my Ladye Nevell, MB19 . (03:44)

3 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: III. The Marche Before the Battell, MB93 . (03:53)

4 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: IV. The Battell, MB94 .- The Souldiers Sommons - The Marche of the Foote Men - The Marche of the Horsmen - The Trumpetts - The Irishe Marche - The Bagpipe and the Drone (12:14)

5 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: V. The Galliarde for the Victorie, MB95 . (01:54)

6 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: VI. The Barelye Breake, MB92 . (08:06)

7 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: VII. A Galliards Gygge, MB18 . (02:02)

8 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: VIII. The Huntes Upp, MB41 . (06:47)

9 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: IX. Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La, MB64 . (07:58)

10 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: X. The Firste Pavian, MB29 . (04:22)

11 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XI. The Galliarde to the Same (01:42)

12 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XII. The II Pavian, MB71 . (02:37)

13 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XIII. The Galliarde to the Same (01:56)

14 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XIV. The III Pavian, MB14 . (04:50)

15 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XV. The Galliarde to the Same (01:34)

16 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XVI. The IIII Pavian, MB30 . (02:49)

17 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XVII. The Galliarde (01:44)

18 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XVIII. The V Pavian, MB31 . (05:10)

19 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XIX. The Galliarde (01:45)

20 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XX. Pavana the VI. Kinbrugh Goodd, MB32 . (04:39)

21 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXI. The Galliard (01:44)

22 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXII. The Seventh Pavian, MB74 . (04:17)

23 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXIII. The Eighte Pavian, MB17 . (05:02)

24 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXIV. The Passinge Mesures Pavan, MB2 . (06:07)

25 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXV. The Galliarde (04:39)

26 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXVI. A Voluntarie for my Ladye Nevell, MB61 . (04:58)

27 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXVII. Will Yow Qalke the Woodes Soe Wylde, MB85 . (04:08)

28 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXVIII. The Maidens Song, MB82 . (05:20)

29 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXIX. A Lesson of Voluntarie, MB26 . (07:30)

30 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXX. The Seconde Grownde, MB42 . (08:33)

31 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXI. Have with Yow to Walsingame, MB8 . (08:35)

32 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXII. All in a Garden Grine, MB56 . (03:56)

33 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXIII. Lord Willobies Welcome Home, MB7 . (02:37)

34 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXIV. The Carmans Whistle, MB36 . (05:20)

35 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXV. Hughe Ashstons Ground, MB20 . (07:25)

36 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXVI. A Fancie, MB25 . (05:39)

37 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXVII. Sellingers Rownde, MB84 . (07:00)

38 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXVIII. Munsers Almaine, MB88 . (07:15)

39 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XXXIX. The Tenthe Pavian, Mr W Peter, MB3 . (05:16)

40 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XL. The Galliard (02:03)

41 . My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XLI. A Fancie, MB46 . (05:12)

42 .My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: XLII. A Voluntarie, MB27 . (03:33)

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