The Byrd Edition Volume 17. Edited by Kenneth Elliott 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 à 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.
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ISBN 9790220220166.
Ten fantasia-suites, for two treble viols, bass viol and organ, written early in the composer's career, and fifteen fantasia-air sets, probably late productions, add to the significant corpus of music for viol consort by this outstanding seventeenth-century composer who inherited and expanded the tradition of instrumental fantasias handed down from Coprario and Lawes. Recordings of the fifteen fantasia-air sets, performed by the Locke Consort, are available on the Channel Classics label, CD number CCS SA 17602.
