Fretwork - An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes - Import CD

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Fretwork

Description:

Fretwork, one of the world's leading viol consort, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2021, and mezzo Helen Charleston, first prize winner of the 2018 Handel Singing Competition, present an album of introspective and dark Christmas celebrations from Elizabethan England. Beginning with William Byrd's joyful and immortal "From the Clear Eastern Sky," and the intimate music for Christmas composed by English Renaissance composers such as Anthony Holborn, Orlando Gibbons, and Martin Pearson, all in the serene tones of a viol ensemble. Please enjoy. Some tracks (*) feature singers Emma Walsh (soprano), Lucy Cox (soprano), Amy Lydon (alto), Guy Cutting (tenor), Malachy Flame (baritone), Edmund Saddington (bass-baritone), and others. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.Out of the Orient Crystal Skies
2.Pavan
3.As It Fell on Holie Eve
4.From Virgin's Womb - Rejoice, Rejoice
5.The Cradle
6.Lullabie
7.Lullaby
8.Fantazy No. 1 a 4 'For Ye Great Dooble Bass'
9.Work(s)~An Earthly Tree / Cast Off All Doubtful Care
10.Attendite
11.Upon My Lap, My Sovereign Sits
12.To Shorten Winter's Sadnesse
13.Fantazy No. 2 a 4 'For Ye Great Dooble Bass'
14.Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sang
15.The New-Yeares Gift
16.Heigh Ho Holiday
17.O God that Guides the Cheerful Sun

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