The golden age of viol and lute consort music in Tudor England.
As part of the 7th Music and History Festival for intercultural dialogue, Hesperion XXI, under the direction of Jordi SAVALL, performs pieces and dance forms from the most joyful to the most melancholy.
Jordi SAVALL, soprano viola da gamba
Philippe PIERLOT, alto and bass viola da gamba
Sergi CASADEMUNT, tenor viola da gamba
Imke DAVID, bass viola da gamba
Lorenz DUFTSCHMID, bass viola da gamba
Xavier PUERTAS, violin
Rolf LISLEVAND, lute and guitar
Michael BEHRINGER, organ and harpsichord
Dimitri PSONIS, percussion.
Concert recorded at the Fontfroide Abbey in Narbonne.
This music has a rich sound and possesses a rare eloquence. The fluidity of the voices, in which imitation, counterpoint and canon interweave, and the osmosis between them contributes towards a sound that’s both complex and limpid, radiating the most ebullient joy and the most poignant nostalgia.
The entire spirit of the Renaissance as experienced in Europe is concentrated in these pieces, inspired by the most moving of muses.
- "Allemande", Anonyme
- "Boure´e d'Avignonez", Anonyme
- "Brandeberges", Anonyme
- "Browning my dear", de Woodcock
- "Canarios", Improvisation
- "Consort XXI", Henri VIII
- "Desperada", Anonyme
- "Fairie-round", d'Anthony Holborne
- "Four Note Pavan", de Ferrabosco
- "Fruit of Love", d'Anthony Holborne
- "Galliard The Sighes", d'Anthony Holborne
- "Galliard", d'Anthony Holborne
- "Heigh ho Holiday", d'Anthony Holborne
- "Holie Eve", d'Anthony Holborne
- "Honie-Suckle" d'Anthony Holborne
- "In nomine I", Anonyme
- "In nomine II", Anonyme
- "In Nomine XII", de Tye
- "In Nomine" de Byrd
- "In Nomine" de Gibbons
- "King of Denmark" de Dowland
- "Lachrimae Antiquae" de Dowland
- "My Selfe" d'Anthony Holborne
- "Pavin Bona speranza" d'Anthony Holborne
- "Pavin Funerals" d'Anthony Holborne
- "Pavin of Albarti & Galliard" d'Alberti
- "Pavin Paradizo" d'Anthony Holborne
- "Schotisch Tanz" de Brade
- "Semper Dolens" de Dowland
- "Sir Souch his galliard" de Dowland
- "Teares of the Muses" d'Anthony Holborne
