Various Artists - Garland of the Elizabethan Lyric / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Dance Sellengers Round - the Broadside Band 2. Verse Anthem This Is the Record of John - Red Byrd & the Rose Consort of VLS 3. Dance Bergamasqa - the Broadside Band 4. VL Consort In Nomine a 5 - Fretwork Consort of VLS 5. Song Coventry Carol - Sneak's Noyse 6. LT Solo Passamezzo Pavan - George Weigand 7. Verse Anthem Sing Unto God - Red Byrd & the Rose Consort of VLS 8. Dance The Spanish Pavan/Galliard - la Gamba - the York Waits (Shawms & Curtal) 9. Song Go Cristall Teares - Carolin Trevor & the Rose Consort of VLS 10. Virginals Solo A Toye - Richard Burnett 11. Dance La Doune Cella - the York Waits 12. VL Consort Pavan - Lachrimae Coactae - the Rose Consort of VLS 13. Song Greensleeves - John Potter & the Broadside Band 14. Dance Crimson Velvet - the York Waits 15. Song There Dwelt a Man in Babylon - Deborah Roberts & the Broadside Band 16. Dance Almain - the Night Watch - the York Waits 17. Song Come Live with Me - John Potter & the Broadside Band 18. LT Solo Bonny Sweet Robin - George Weigand 19. RCR Consort Pavan-Heigh-Ho Holyday - the York Waits 20. Consort Song Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sung - Red Byrd & the Rose Consort of VLS 21. Dance Staines Morris - the York Waits 22. VL Consort Libera Nos a 5 - Fretwork Consort of VLS 23. Song Fortune My Foe - John Potter/Deborah Roberts & the Broadside Band 24. Dance Dulcina/All You That Love Good Fellowes - the York Waits 25. Song The Poor Soul Sat Sighing - Deborah Roberths & the Broadside Band 26. VL Consort Fantasy a 5 Browning - the Rose Consort of VLS 27. Recorder Consort Pavan - the Cradle - the York Waits 28. Song Farewell Dear Love - John Potter & the Broadside Band 29. Dance La Bounette - the York Waits

Various Artists - Elizabethan Organ Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/2022

Viol consort Fretwork and mezzo soprano Helen Charlston explore the more reflective and sombre Christmas celebrations of Elizabethan England, in a collection of works by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, Orlando Gibbons and Martin Peerson. With celebrations confined strictly to the 12 days from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, the preceding Advent was regarded as a time of religious introspection, with music composed to mark both fasting and feasting. Byrd's consort songs for voice and 5 viols encompass this range, from the joyous Out of the Orient Crystal Skies - ending with an exuberant 'Falantidingdido', a word whose meaning is lost to history - to his Lullaby, a 'song of sadnes and pietie' that became one of Byrd's most enduringly famous songs. In 2021, Fretwork celebrates it's 35th anniversary. In the past three and a half decades they have explored the core repertory of great English consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings against which others are judged. In addition to this, Fretwork have become known as pioneers of contemporary music for viols, having commissioned over 40 new works. Acclaimed for her musical interpretation, presence and Inchwarmly distinctive toneInch (The Telegraph), Helen Charlston is quickly cementing herself as a key performer in the next generation of British singers. Helen won first prize in the 2018 Handel Singing Competition and was a finalist in the Hurn Court Opera Competition, and the Grange Festival International Singing Competition. Album Tracks 1. Out of the Orient Crystal Skies 2. Pavan, InchParadizoInch 3. As It Fell on a Holy Eve 4. From Virgin's Womb Rejoice, Rejoice 5. The Cradle (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble) 6. Lullaby 7. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby 8. Fantasia No. 1 a 4 9. An Earthly Tree 10. Attendite 11. Upon My Lap My Soveraigne Sits (From Private Musicke) 12. To Shorten