Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner - Byrd 1589 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 538 Mb | Total time: 122:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Inventa Records | # INV1011 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 538 Mb | Total time: 122:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Inventa Records | # INV1011 | Recorded: 2022
Following the critically acclaimed album of Byrd’s 1589 collection, Alamire returns with the completion of their survey of the early song collections with the 1589 Collection, in this, the composer’s 400th anniversary year. • Alamire is joined by viol consort Fretwork and director David Skinner. • Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In following year he writes that he had ‘bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.’