Byrd - My Ladye Nevells Booke
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96887
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th July 2023
Contents
Works
A Fancie, MB25A Fancie, MB46
A Galliards Gygge
A Lesson of Voluntarie
A Voluntarie, 'For my ladye nevell'
A Voluntarie
All in a Garden Green
Have with Yow to Walsingame
Hughe Ashton's Ground
Lord Willobies Welcome Home
Munsers Alman
My Ladye Nevels Grownde
Pavana the Sixte, 'Kinbrugh Goodd'
Qui passe (chi passa) for my Lady Nevell
Sellinger's Round, MB84
The Barelye Breake
The Battell
The Carman's Whistle
The Eighte Pavian
The Fifte Pavian
The Firste Pavian
The Fourth Pavian
The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian
The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian
The Galliarde to the Fourth Pavian
The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian
The Galliarde to the Seconde Pavian
The Galliarde to the Sixte Pavian
The Galliarde to the Tenneth Pavian
The Galliarde to the Third Pavian
The Galliard for the Victorie, BK95
The Huntes upp
The Marche before the Battell
The Maydens Song
The Passinge Mesures, 'The Nynthe Pavian'
The Second Grownde
The Seconde Pavian
The Seventh Pavian
The Tennthe Pavian, 'Mr. W. Peter'
The Third Pavian
Ut re mi fa sol la, MB64
Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde
Artists
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)Works
A Fancie, MB25A Fancie, MB46
A Galliards Gygge
A Lesson of Voluntarie
A Voluntarie, 'For my ladye nevell'
A Voluntarie
All in a Garden Green
Have with Yow to Walsingame
Hughe Ashton's Ground
Lord Willobies Welcome Home
Munsers Alman
My Ladye Nevels Grownde
Pavana the Sixte, 'Kinbrugh Goodd'
Qui passe (chi passa) for my Lady Nevell
Sellinger's Round, MB84
The Barelye Breake
The Battell
The Carman's Whistle
The Eighte Pavian
The Fifte Pavian
The Firste Pavian
The Fourth Pavian
The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian
The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian
The Galliarde to the Fourth Pavian
The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian
The Galliarde to the Seconde Pavian
The Galliarde to the Sixte Pavian
The Galliarde to the Tenneth Pavian
The Galliarde to the Third Pavian
The Galliard for the Victorie, BK95
The Huntes upp
The Marche before the Battell
The Maydens Song
The Passinge Mesures, 'The Nynthe Pavian'
The Second Grownde
The Seconde Pavian
The Seventh Pavian
The Tennthe Pavian, 'Mr. W. Peter'
The Third Pavian
Ut re mi fa sol la, MB64
Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde
Artists
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)About
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 to members 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 and programmatic 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.
Praise for the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book:
‘Utterly enthralling… If ever a project deserved the term magnum opus this complete recording of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is it.’ – Early Music Today
‘The standard of playing is consistently high, the variety of music on offer remarkably varied.’ – Gramophone
‘The model against which all other recordings of the Fitzwilliam will be matched. This is a seminal and monumental work of the age, and thus can be considered a keystone of any collection of keyboard music.’ – Fanfare
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