ROYAL DELIGHT

Brade, William, Byrd, William, Praetorius, Michael, różni kompozytorzy, Scheidt, Samuel, Simpson, Thomas

O'Dette, Paul, The King's Noyse

HMX 2907370.71

Nakład wyprzedany, ostatni egzemplarz double-CD set, a budget reissue of two 1990s releases by the Chicago-based ensemble the King's Noyse, captures a sound still relatively uncommon in performances of English music from the seventeenth century: the violin band. British art demonstrates the popularity of the violin during the period listeners instinctively associate with the soberer viol consort, and music of the sort heard here moved one writer of the age to state that the violin (whose origins are only slightly younger than those of the viol) offered "High Priz'd Noise fit to make a man's Ear Glow, and fill his brains full of frisks." Frisks aside, the album offers upbeat little instrumental tunes with great titles like Trip and Go and Mr. Isaac's Maggot, with simple structures sometimes varied through elaboration in multiple iterations of a tune. The program is effectively broken up with entrancing solos for lute and cittern played by the great Paul O'Dette, and with other unusual instrumental pieces -- hear the bass violin, and lute.

Works:

• anon.: A light hearts A jewell
• anon.: All in a Garden Green
• anon.: As att noone Dulcina rested
• trad.: Barbara Allen
• anon.: Begone, sweit night
• anon.: Blew-cap for me
• anon.: Boatman
• anon.: Bonny Sweet Robin
• anon.: Child Grove
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• anon.: Daphne
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• anon.: Easter Thursday
• anon.: Emperor of the Moon
• anon.: Fortune my Foe
• anon.: Gathering peascods
• anon.: Grimstock
• anon.: Half hanniken
• anon.: Hollis berrie
• anon.: I smell a rat
• anon.: Jog On
• anon.: Mr Isaac's Maggot
• anon.: Newcastle
• anon.: Nottingham ale
• anon.: Now, o now, I needs must part
• anon.: Robin is to the Greenwood gone
• anon.: Sing care away
• anon.: Souch's March
• anon.: Strawberries and cream
• anon.: The Beggar Boy
• anon.: The Happy Meeting
• anon.: The king's delight
• anon.: The lovely northerne lasse
• anon.: The Queen's delight
• anon.: Tickle my toe
• anon.: Trip and go
• anon.: Wilson's Wylde
• Baldwin, J: Coockow as I me walked
• Brade: Dulcina
• Byrd: Browning (The Leaves be Green)
• Byrd: Praeludium
• Dowland: Now, O now, I needs must part
• Marchant: Walsingham
• Praetorius, M: Courante [Packington's Pound] (123)
• Scheidt: Canzon super O Nachbar Roland
• Stonings: Browning my dear
• Whitfield: Huntsuppe

CD x 2

Harmonia Mundi

5/25/09

093046737023