An Elizabethan Christmas
Byrd - Holborne - Gibbons - Peerson - Weelkes
Helen Charlston (Mezzosopran) - Fretwork
Label : Signum Records
Artikelnummer: SIGCD680
1 CD Spielzeit : 000:00
CHF 18.00
With celebrations confined strictly to the 12 days from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, the preceding Advent was regarded as a time of religious introspection, with music composed to mark both fasting and feasting. Byrd's consort songs for voice and 5 viols encompass this range, from the joyous Out of the Orient Crystal Skies to his Lullaby, a 'song of sadnes and pietie 'that became one of Byrd's most enduringly famous songs.