Product Description
‘The Virgin Queen’ Elizabeth I was the focal-point of all England; the subject, dedicatee and audience for much of the music composed and performed throughout her long and now legendary reign. The music on this album, chosen for a concert of words and music devised for the Sarum Consort by Deborah Mackay, includes sacred and secular pieces by composers from Byrd to Weelkes. The Sarum Consort here makes its Naxos début under founding musical director Andrew Mackay. “The Sarum Consort is a finely balanced and blended group… whose pacing and control of light and shade cannot be faulted.” Penguin Guide
Tracklisting
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anon.: |
Robin is to the greenwood gonn |
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Byrd: |
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth |
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Dowland: |
Time stands still Lady Rich, her Galliard |
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East: |
Hence stars too dim of light |
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Ferrabosco, A II: |
So beautie on the waters stood |
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Gibbons, O: |
O clap your hands |
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Hunt, T: |
Hark! did ye ever hear so sweet a singing? |
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Morley: |
Hard by a crystal fountain |
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Rogier: |
Laboravi in gemitu meo |
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Tomkins: |
Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers! |
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Weelkes: |
As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending |
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Wilbye: |
Oft have I vow’d Ye that do live in pleasures Draw on, sweet night |
