Renaissance Anglaise

The golden age of English music lies roughly between the end of the sixteenth and the first quarter of the seventeenth centuries. Although generally and somewhat loosely called the 'Elizabethan Age', this period of greatness, which coincided with the full flowering of the English drama (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, etc.), actually covers only the last part of the reign of the great Elizabeth and extends throughout the reign of James I, the first of the Stuarts. During the period of forty years between about 1588 (the year of the victory over the Spanish Armada) and 1625 (the death of James I), England produced a larger number of great composers than at any other time in her history: William Byrd, Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, John Wilbye, John Dowland, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons - preceded by a generation by the great Thomas Tallis - and at least twenty other highly gifted musicians who would have been the glory of a less fortunate age.

Composer:
Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)
Thomas Tompkins (1572-1656)
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)


Tracks:
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Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)
To shorten winter's sadness, madrigal for 5 voices
Thule the period of cosmographie, madrigal in 2 sections for 6 voices
Fantasia, for 2 basses
O care wilt thou dispatch mee, madrigal in 2 sections for 5 voices
The Cries of London, for 5 voices
Lachrimae, for 5 viols
All laud and praise, anthem for 4 voices & organ

Thomas Tompkins (1572-1656)
To the shady woods
Fantasia No 9 for 3 viols
Oyez! Has Any Found A Lad? for 4 voices (madrigal)
Fantasia No 10 for 3 viols
I heard a voice from heaven
Pavane for 5 viols & organ in A minor

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Ah, deere heart, madrigal for 5 voices
Work(s) [Unspecified] In nomine a 5
What is our life, madrigal for 5 voices
Pavan: De le Roye, for 5 viols, MB30
Behold, thou hast made my days, anthem for voices
The secret sins, anthem (probably by W. Mundy; verse incomplete)
Great King of Gods (Lord of Lords), anthem for voices
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also download:
(Ganassi & Ortiz) Works for Viola da Gamba
Les Travailleurs de la mer (Ancient songs from a small island)
Renaissance Dance Music (a must have)
Renaissance Dances (Collegium Aureum)
Renaissance Dances from Spain (Roberto Pla)



please upload:
*Brahms Hungarian Dances for violin and piano
*Tartini - Violin concertos (any disc from Hungaroton or Dynamic collection)