Byrd For My Ladye Nevell
A fine way to sample the riches of a 16th-century keyboard collection
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Composer or Director: William Byrd, Terence Charlston
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Deux-Elles
Magazine Review Date: 6/2009
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: DXL1136

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: My Ladye Nevells Grownde |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Virginal Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
(The) Battle, Movement: The soldiers' summons |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
(The) Battle, Movement: The trumpets |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Harpsichord Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
(The) Battle, Movement: The bagpipe and the drone |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
(The) Battle, Movement: The flute and the drum |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: The Galliarde for the Victorie |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Second Pavian |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Virginal William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Galliarde to the Second Pavian |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Virginal Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Fifte Pavian |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Harpsichord Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Seventh Pavian |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Virginal William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Eighte Pavian |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: (A) Voluntarie 'for my Ladye Nevell' |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Virginal William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Lord Willobies Welcome Home |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Harpsichord Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: (The) Carmans Whistle |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Harpsichord Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: Sellingers Rownde |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Virginal William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: (A) Fancie |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Harpsichord William Byrd, Composer |
My Ladye Nevells Booke, Movement: (A) Voluntarie |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Virginal Terence Charlston, Composer William Byrd, Composer |
Fantazia Mr Bird |
William Byrd, Composer
Terence Charlston, Composer Terence Charlston, Virginal William Byrd, Composer |
Author: Lindsay Kemp
Christopher Hogwood made a fine recording of the entire book (three CD’s worth) for L’Oiseau- Lyre in 1974-75, but Terence Charlston here takes us on a quicker tour while maintaining its contours by selecting from each of the showcased genres and keeping them in their manuscript order. Thus, he opens with the weighty My Ladye Nevells Grownde, moves on through the descriptive The Battell (itself filleted for length) and a group of noble pavans and galliards, to end up among an assortment of tuneful song variations and eloquently contrapuntal fantasias and voluntaries. His playing is neatly tasteful, adding some well chosen extra ornaments but not seeking to overelaborate or impose on such perfectly composed music. If the dance movements are a touch sober, there is strong characterisation in The Battell, helped by the crisp tang of a Flemish harpsichord copy by David Evans, an instrument which also lends impressive grandeur to A Fancie. Elsewhere, it shares roughly equal duty with a Flemish virginals (also by Evans), offering a sound slightly feistier than the norm, but a mellow contrast nevertheless. An unassuming disc, perhaps, but still a fine sampler of one of the greatest of early keyboard composers.
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