Amavi - East: Music for Viols & Voice / Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

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BIS
Release Date
January 8, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      EAST, MICHAEL
    • PERFORMER
      Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort Of Viols
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 08, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599925035
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2503
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Desperavi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    2. When David heard

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    3. Peccavi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    4. Turn thy face

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    5. O give me the comfort of thy help again

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    6. Vidi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    7. Hence stars too dim of light

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    8. Penitet

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    9. Farewell sweet woods

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    10. Credidi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    11. O Lord of whom I do depend

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    12. Vixi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    13. Life tell me

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    14. Triumphavi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    15. O clap your hands

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    16. God is gone up

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    17. Amavi

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols

    18. When I lament

      Composer: Michael East

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols

    19. Now are my thoughts at peace

      Composer: Jill Jarman

      Ensemble: Fieri Consort, Chelys Consort of Viols


Running through this album is a path from despair and sin through revelation, repentance and belief, to life, triumph and finally love. The stations on the way are eight five-part fantasias for viols by Michael East (1580–1648), unusual in that each of them has a Latin title – from Desperavi to Amavi. In his time, East was one of England’s most published composers with seven books of his compositions in print, all of them containing music for viols and voices. The fantasias are here performed by the five members of Chelys Consort of Viols, who together with the singers in Fieri Consort have selected vocal items by East to complement each of the instrumental pieces. Regretting the lack of modern repertoire for this combination the performers have also commissioned a new piece by the composer Jill Jarman. Setting a verse by Sir Henry Wotton, a contemporary of East, Now are my thoughts at peace sums up the journey of the fantasias from Desperavi to Amavi, 400 years after they were written.