Aeternum / Le Strange Viols

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Label
Olde Focus Recordings
Release Date
April 20, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BYRD TALLIS TAVERNER
    • PERFORMER
      Lestrange Viols
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 20, 2018
    • UPC
      767223519930
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR912
    • LABEL
      Olde Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. In aeternum

      Composer: William Mundy

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    2. In nomine a 5

      Composer: Picforth

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    3. Psalm 41, "Quemadmodum"

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    4. Phancy

      Composer: Edward Blankes

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    5. In nomine a 6

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    6. Esperants (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Philip Van Wilder

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    7. In nomine No. 1 a 7

      Composer: Robert Parsons

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    8. In nomine No. 2 a 7

      Composer: Robert Parsons

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    9. In nomine, "Crye"

      Composer: Christopher Tye

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    10. O salutaris hostia (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    11. Yf man in care

      Composer: Mallorie

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    12. Lawdes Deo

      Composer: Christopher Tye

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    13. In nomine No. 1 a 5

      Composer: William Byrd

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    14. Qual iniqua mia sorte (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Jacquet de Berchem

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    15. In nomine a 5

      Composer: Brewster

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    16. O lux beata Trinitas

      Composer: Christopher Tye

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    17. Or vien ca, vien, m'amye (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Clément Janequin

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    18. Spes nostra

      Composer: Osbert Parsley

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    19. Dum transisset Sabbatum (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: John Sheppard

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    20. Browning My Dear

      Composer: Clement Woodcock

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    21. In nomine

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    22. Frisque et gaillard (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    23. O sacrum convivium (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Thomas Tallis

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    24. In nomine No. 3 a 5

      Composer: Nicholas Strogers

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    25. Si de beaucoup (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Philip Van Wilder

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols

    26. Me li Bavari a 6

      Composer: Giovanni Croce

      Ensemble: Le Strange Viols


The Elizabethan manuscript from which this album is entirely drawn is known by its British Library shelf-mark: Additional Manuscript 31390. Add. MS 31390 contains 135 pieces, which capture a snapshot of musical life in the 1570s. Some of the pieces reflect the “hottest new releases” of 1578 (when the manuscript was copied) while others are “golden oldies” from the first half of the 16th century. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was no way to record music other than by putting musical notation onto paper. In creating an audio recording of this notational record, we aim, as the portrait painter does, to capture not merely the likeness, but the liveness of our subject: musical manuscript as mix-tape or playlist that gathers together music for later hearing and for posterity. Some of the pieces on this album are standards. Those who have sung in a choir will surely know and love Tallis’s O sacrum convivium. Aficionados of viol consort music will be familiar with a number of the In nomines. We hope putting these gems of the repertory in proximity to unknown and previously unrecorded works recontextualizes them to offer a more complete view of this important and beautiful manuscript.