Orpheus Anglorum / Genov

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 27, 2018
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HOLBORNE JOHNSON
    • PERFORMER
      Yavor Genov
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 27, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421955513
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95551
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. The Flat Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    2. Galliard to the Flat Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    3. Carman's Whistle

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    4. The Delight Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    5. Galliard to the Delight Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    6. Quadro Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    7. Johnson's Jewel

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    8. Piece without title (Galliard)

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    9. The Gathering of Pescodes

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    10. A Ground

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    11. Passingmeasures Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    12. Goodnight and Good Rest

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    13. Pavane

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    14. The Queenes New Year's Gift

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    15. The Countess of Pembroke's Funerals

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    16. Fantasia No. 1

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    17. Galliard No. 13, "Heigh Ho Holiday"

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    18. Pavan No. 2

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    19. Galliard No. 2

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    20. Last Will and Testament

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    21. Fantasia No. 2

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    22. Almain

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    23. Galliard No. 17

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    24. Fantasia No. 3

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    25. Heres paternus

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    26. Muy linda

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov

    27. As it fell on a holie eve

      Composer: Antony Holborne

      Performer: Yavor Genov


John Johnson and Antony Holborne share much in common, in their music and in their careers, but this album, in setting their work side by side, reveals their individual style and approach to the instrument. It is assumed that they both were born in the 1540s, without authoritative record, but their work in the royal court of the 1560s is attested. Johnson made his career as an accomplished performer, while Holborne’s energies were focused on writing for the instrument. In the case of Johnson, the pavans, galliards and grounds recorded by Yavor Genov incorporate an amalgam of native and foreign (especially Italian) elements. His works show the English taste for cross-relations, surprising harmonic and tonal relationships and, above all, variation. However, like Holborne, he developed the form of the pavan during the course of his career, endowing it with increasing richness of ornamentation and expression, to be enjoyed in full in the melancholy undertow of the Passingmeasures Pavan. Holborne’s lute music is still more painstakingly elaborate, designed perhaps less for public show than private reflection, to give as much pleasure to the musician as to his courtly audience. With two albums on Brilliant, of music by Kapsberger and Zamboni, the young Bulgarian lutenist has introduced himself to international audiences and proved to be a thoroughly sympathetic interpreter of this idiom which trades on subtle intimacies of phrase, decoration and inflection.