Seldom Sene: Delight in Musicke - COMPACT DISCS

Seldom Sene: Delight in Musicke - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Delight in Musicke Artist: Seldom Sene Label: Brilliant Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5028421956541 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 04 27 Number of Discs: 1 The increasing popularity of consort music and lute songs at the 16th century English court gave rise to a specific type of song, usually sung by a boy soprano together with a consort of 3 to 5 viols. These 'consort songs' flourished particularly during the reigns of

Title: Delight in Musicke
Artist: Seldom Sene
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421956541
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-04-27
Number of Discs: 1

The increasing popularity of consort music and lute songs at the 16th-century English court gave rise to a specific type of song, usually sung by a boy soprano together with a consort of 3 to 5 viols. These 'consort songs' flourished particularly during the reigns of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and her son James I (1603-1625). Especially attractive examples of such songs are gathered and arranged here, and sung by the Dutch soprano Klaartje van Veldhoven, who specializes in early and Baroque music, having regularly sung as a soloist with many of Europe's foremost early-music ensembles and conductors such as Sigiswald Kuijken and Ton Koopman. This is the fourth album on Brilliant Classics by the Dutch-based recorder quintet Seldom Sene. Having come from all over Europe to study at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, they draw upon the particularly rich performing tradition for recorder music established in that country during the 1960s by the late Frans Bruggen. In fact they take their name from the last track on this album, Seldom Sene by Tye: a short work full of beauty, precision and striking rhythmic complexity that the musicians felt captured the essence of their vision, which is to perform unique and compelling repertoire at a standard that is seldom seen and heard.

Tracks:
1.1 Lachrimae Antiquae, for 5 Viols/Violins ; Lute (From "Lachrimae")
1.2 Sir John Souch His Galiard, for 5 Viols/Violins ; Lute (From "Lachrimae")
1.3 Mr George Whitehead His Almand, for 5 Viols/Violins ; Lute (From "Lachrimae")
1.4 I Shame at Mine Unworthiness, Sacred Song for 5 Voices
1.5 Ah Silly Soul, Consort Song for Soprano ; 5 Viols
1.6 What Strikes the Clocke?, for 3 Viols
1.7 Coockow As I Me Walked
1.8 In Nomine a 5 ("Seldom Sene")
1.9 Send Forth Thy Signs
1.10 Climb Not Too High
1.11 Lute Book Lullaby ("Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sung")
1.12 Fantasia Upon One Note, for 5 Viols in F Major, Z. 745
1.13 Browning a 5, for Instrumental Consort ("The Leaves Bee Greene")
1.14 Venus' Birds
1.15 Cuckoo, for Voice ; Consort (Attributed)
1.16 The Nightingale the Organ of Delight, Madrigal for 3 Voices
1.17 Farewell the Bliss
1.18 If Women Could Be Fair, Madrigal for 5 Voices
1.19 In Nomine a 5, for Instrumental Consort No. 5
1.20 In Nomine for 6 Viols in G minor, Z. 746
1.21 In Nomine a 5 ("Seldom Sene")

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