New Old Albion: Music around the Harp Consorts of William Lawes

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Release Date: 22nd Apr 2016
Catalogue No: 95274
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 61 minutes

Lawes, W: Harpe Consort No. 11 in D Minor

Work length4:48

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Fantazy

Track length4:48

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Lawes, W: Harpe Consort No. 4 in D Minor

Work length8:16

$4.00

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

I. Aire

Track length2:03

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II. Aire

Track length1:16

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III. Corant

Track length1:44

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IV. Saraband

Track length3:13

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Playford: Division Violin

Work length7:15

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Faronell's Division on a Ground

Track length7:15

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Byrd: Parthenia, No.7. Galiardo Earle of Salisbury

Work length4:17

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Byrd: Galiardo

Work length1:26

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Simpson, C: Division in E minor

Work length6:26

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Dowland: Prelude in G Minor

Work length1:07

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Lawes, W: Harpe Consort No. 8 in G Major

Work length6:58

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Paven

Track length6:58

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Playford: Paul's Steeple, or the Duke of Norfolk

Work length2:47

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Byrd: The Bells

Work length6:42

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

Locke: For Several Friends, Suite No. 4 in E Minor

Work length11:09

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Caleidoscopio Ensemble, Il

I. Pavan

Track length4:38

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II. Almand

Track length1:23

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III. Courante

Track length1:27

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IV. Ayre

Track length2:02

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V. Sarabande - Jigg

Track length1:39

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Il Caleidoscopio is a bright young early music ensemble based in Milan, and this is their debut album, featuring not the usual fare of trio sonatas and concerti grossi from their native country but a musical journey around 17th‐century England, centred on the London of Byrd and Playford, which was indeed one of the musical capitals of the world at the time.

Their international outlook reflects their membership: the Australian Lathika Vithanage (violin), Noelia Reverte Reche from Spain (viola da gamba) and Flora Papadopoulos from Greece (harp), joined here by the lutenist Michele Pasotti. They have already given concerts at the major early music festivals in Rome, Milan, Ravenna and farther afield.

The album is themed around the chamber music of William Lawes, who moved this genre forward in England in the first half of the 17th century. He was equally the leading composer of dance, and of music for drama (including the masque), in the period 1630/45. Doubtless his career would have been even more distinguished had he not died in battle at the Siege of Chester in September 1645: King Charles mourned him deeply, and declared him ‘Father of Musick’. Listening to the serene and lively progress of these dances, so assured in harmony and fertile in melodic invention, who would disagree?

Not that Lawes overshadows the other distinguished names here, whose various pieces complement the harp‐consort genre employed by Lawes. Locke’s Consort No.4 is subtitled ‘for several friends’ but Byrd’s magnificent ground The Bells is originally for solo keyboard, while Dowland’s Prelude is for lute and Christopher Simpson’s E minor Divisions are for solo gamba, ‘for the practice of learners’ but rich in the melancholy of the age.

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