The record presents an assortment of the major styles and genres of 16th and 17th century English secular music. By juxtaposing different musical characters that range from gleeful dance music through the philosophical song to the broadside ballad and the lullaby, we seek to present a musical world that is less known to the audience of our day, yet is all the more vigorous and enjoyable. According to the practice of the period we have adapted these pieces to the vocal and instrumental make-up of our own ensemble. The title song of this recording displays a painterly world with the means of poetry - well characterising the intertwinement of the sublime and the profane in the music of the age.
Judit Andrejszki - vocal, harpsichord
Miklós Bodóczky - vocal, tenor and bass viols, recorder
Réka Kürthy - violin, tenor viol
Zsolt Szabó - descant and bass viols, recorder
Piroska Vitárius - violin
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Thomas Simpson - Suite
2.
John Dowland - Lachrimae Antiquae (Flow My Tears)
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John Dowland - Pavan a 4
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Anon - Venus Birds
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Anthony Holborne - The Cradle Pavane
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Anthony Holborne - Lullabie Galliard
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Tobias Hume - The Soldier's Song
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John Adson - Royal Wind Music
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Thomas D'Urfey / William McGibbon - The Farmer's Daughter
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