SKU: ST.MB65
ISBN 9790220211065.
In this volume are the complete extant consort works of a Jacobean Catholic composer, rediscovered this century, who excelled in the conservative polyphonic style of the earlier consort masters.
SKU: HL.49030287
ISBN 9790220123481. 9.0x12.0x0.034 inches.
SKU: HL.49030285
ISBN 9790220123467. 8.75x11.5x0.069 inches.
SKU: HL.49044834
ISBN 9790220136719. UPC: 841886027268. 9.0x12.0x0.097 inches.
This beautiful and tentative work for viol consort is based on a Purcell Fantasia of the same name. Occasionally, and to great effect, Bryars enhances the rich, romantic sound of bowed viols with the use of pizzicato and harmonics, highlighting the distance between this mesmerising piece and its origin.
SKU: HL.49030292
ISBN 9790220123535. 9.0x12.0x0.055 inches.
SKU: ST.MB40
ISBN 9790220211706.
15 pieces from the Walsingham Consort Book of 1588 and 19 pieces from Matthew Holmes's Consort Books, c.1575 represent music for mixed consort, a colourful and eclectic genre that played an important role in Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music-making.
SKU: HH.HH251-FSP
ISBN 9790708092032.
The five three part (SSB) and nine four part (SSTB) dances in this edition represent the complete surviving consort music of Maurice Webster. Webster, a skilled composer with a distinctive style, appears to have been the main catalyst for introducing the 'string quartet' scoring in dance music to England in the 1620s. The development of this idiom had a significant impact on the music of his contemporaries such as Simon Ives, Charles Coleman and William Lawes, who fully embraced it by the 1630s.
SKU: HL.49030286
ISBN 9790220123474. UPC: 196288172086. 9.25x12.0x0.056 inches.
SKU: HL.49030291
ISBN 9790220123528. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.
SKU: HL.49030289
ISBN 9790220123504. UPC: 196288077527. 9.0x12.0x0.056 inches.
SKU: HL.49030293
ISBN 9790220123542. 9.0x12.0x0.073 inches.
SKU: HL.49030290
ISBN 9790220123511. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.
SKU: CT.CP-164
The opening and recurring theme in this piece was inspired by the Adagio from Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. Duration: 14 minute.
SKU: CT.CP-317
English. Text: Oscar Wilde.
Libretto:Based on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest.
Synopsis:A chamber opera in 3 acts based on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest. For full synopsis click here.
Roles:soprano, mezzo, alto, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass, 2 butlers
SKU: CT.CP-135
English.
Serious essay, like a Chopin Nocturne. Duration: 3.5 minutes.
SKU: ST.B362
ISBN 9790220202872.
Though Byrd's In nomine settings for consort were probably the first of his works to circulate widely, the dating of his consort music in general is problematical. The famous 'Browning' variations are probably an early display of the composer's mastery of the form. The only complete Fantasia a 4 is found in the Psalmes, Songs & Sonnets of 1611. Two other examples are reconstructed from fragmentary sources, and appear in this volume with hymn-settings and Misereres, two pavans and a galliard.
SKU: CT.CP-307
Neo Romantic. Single movement with 8 contrasting variations.
SKU: ST.MB101
ISBN 9790220224898.
Complementing their achievements as composers of Italianate vocal music represented elsewhere in the series, this volume brings together consort works by two English Catholics who left England for the continent. Philips belonged to a generation that focused on stylised dance rather than fantasia, and many of his five-part consort dances exist also as keyboard pieces. Dering was born a generation later. Whereas his five-part fantasias were core repertoire for early 17th-century viol players, interest in the stylised dance had by then begun to wane. Several of Dering's pavans and almaines survive in a single source only, and lack outer parts, which have been completed by the editor.
SKU: CT.CP-113
Serious essay, in the serious tradition of the form. Duration: 8 minutes.
SKU: ST.MB45
ISBN 9790220206115.
Five-part consorts by Christopher Tye form a substantial corpus of the works collected in this volume, and appear alongside pieces by Anon, Blanks, Harding, Mundy, Weelkes, Woodson and others.
SKU: ST.MB9
ISBN 9790220209666.
A rich anthology of fantasias and dances for 'whole' consorts of two to six parts, by 34 composers from Adson to Wilbye - and Anon. There is also a substantial section containing music for strings and keyboards, and another of music for division viol and lyra viol.
SKU: ST.MB48
ISBN 9790220206771.
33 free fantasias dominate this collection, which also includes four In Nomines, four dances and variations on 'Go from my window'. This volume gathers together the complete surviving corpus of consort music by one of the genre's greatest masters.
SKU: ST.MB44
ISBN 9790220206108.
With MB45 this volume completes the publication of extant In Nomines and related pieces used for consort performance in the reign of Elizabeth 1 - excluding the music of William Byrd and works by Scottish composers collected in MB15.
SKU: ST.MB22
ISBN 9790220204883.
The 'Cinderella' of Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music, consort songs for voice and viols survived both the popularity of the imported madrigal and the fashion for the lute air. An indigenous corpus of music, they subsequently influenced the development of the verse anthem.