Henry VIII: Sämtliche Werke on CD
Sämtliche Werke
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Lieder; Consorts Nr. 2-5, 8, 12-16, 22, 23
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By all accounts, Henry VIII was a talented and respected musician. His enthusiasm for collecting music and musicians never waned during his life, though his activities as a composer and performer were strongest as a young man in his twenties and thirties. His achievements as a composer have been exaggerated by his subjects and posterity, but he left more compositions than any other monarch.
During his lifetime Henry continually enlarged the royal musical household and its stock of instruments, which was spread around royal palaces; the type and style of the instruments used on this recording reflect Henry’s collection.
In the Henry III Manuscript, a compilation of the music which reflects that used in Henry’s Court, thirty-four compositions are attributed to the King, encompassing an impressive variety of song and instrumental styles. Only one of these pieced - ’Passtyme with good cumpanye’ - appears in another source. The same song is also included twice in the Henry VIII MS, but in two slighty differing versions. many of the pieces are brief, and probably served as preludes to more substantial songs, a proceedure that has been followed on this recording. His instrumental pieces rank among the very earliest English part music for instruments alone and they reflect the heightened status of the new-style household musicians who could read music.
Henry’s instrumental pieces are performed here in a variety of combinations representative of the Royal collection of instruments - the ’alta’ bands of shawms and sackbuts; a consort of three early renaissance viols, consorts of recorders, plucked strings and mixed groups. The vocal pieces are performed in a variety of styles; some with old-style minstrel accompaniments, or with a solo voice and instruments substituting the lower parts. Others are performed as partsongs, particularly those of great difficulty that were probably written for the professional singers of the Chapel Royal.
Rezensionen
"...The five multi-talented members of Sirinu all take a large number of roles, including singing, and are joined by the tenor Hugh Wilson, but the most prominent voice is that of Sara Stowe, who softens her naturally bright soprano very stylishly..." Adrian Jack - Classic CD - October 1998
"... an unusually enlightening and entertaining collection." McLellan - American Record Guide - January / February 1999
"...As the playing is vibrant and accurate this becomes a real treat for the ears. The members of the ensemble take the various vocal roles as well. The performances are first-class, the sound is of demonstration quality... This is a wonderful CD..." John Bauman - Fanfare - April / May 1999
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Whereto should I expresse
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2 Consort XXIII
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3 Thow that men do call it dotage
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4 Green growith the holy
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5 Consort V
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6 Without discord
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7 Consort II
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8 Helas Madame
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9 Consort XII
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10 Alas, what shall I do for Love
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11 Consort XIV
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12 Pastime with good Company
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13 The tyme of youthe
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14 Consort IV
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15 Departure is my chief payne
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16 Consort XVI
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17 Lusty youth should us ensue
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18 En vray amoure
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19 Whoso that wyll for grace sew
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20 Consort XIII
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21 Adieu Madame et ma Maistresse
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22 Taundernaken
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23 Alas, what shall I do for Love
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24 Consort VIII
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25 It is to me a right great joy
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26 Consort XV
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27 O my hart
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28 Whoso that wyll all feattes optayne
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29 Gentil prince de renom
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30 Though sum saith that youth rulyth me
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31 Consort III
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32 If love now reynyd (Version 1)
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33 If love now reynyd (Version 2)
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34 Consort XXII
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