Fantasies, Ayres and Dances - Elizabethan and Jacobean Consort Music

Richard Alison (Composer), Daniel Bacheler (Composer), William Byrd (Composer), John Dowland (Composer), Jacob van Eyck (Composer), Thomas Morley (Composer), Richard Nicholson (Composer), Peter Philips (Composer), Nicholas Strogers (Composer), Julian Bream Consort (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Julian Bream Consort
• Composer: Richard Alison, Daniel Bacheler, William Byrd, John Dowland, Jacob van Eyck, et al.
• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003ERG
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,539 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #14 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Renaissance (c.1450-1600) > General
  • #57 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Reeds & Winds > Recorder

Track Listings

1. Joyne Hands, for consort of instruments (from 'The First Booke of Consort Lessons')

2. Phillips Pavan

3. The Frog Galliard, for lute, P 23

4. The Jew's Dance, for lute & recorder (from Thomas Morley's 'The First Booke of Consort Lessons')

5. Work(s): Fantasy

6. Batchelar's Delight

7. Sacred End Pavan, for lute

8. Work(s): Unidentified Galliard

9. De la Tromba Pavan for consort

10. Thirsis and Milla, song in 2 sections for voice with lute & bass viol

11. Alison's Knell

12. Grimstock

13. Goe from My Window, for consort

14. Go, nightly cares, the enemy to rest, for voice, trumpet, bass viols & lute (A Pilgrimes Solace)

15. Daniells Almayne for consort

16. In Nomine, pavan, for treble viol, flute, bass viol, cittern, pandora & lute

17. Comagain ('Come again') (after John Dowland)

18. Lachrimae Pavan, for keyboard or lute (from 'Lachrimae')

19. Can she excuse my wrongs, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful reading of Elizabethan and Jacobean pieces, December 29, 2008

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Matthew Hayden "matthayden" (Northern California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fantasies, Ayres and Dances - Elizabethan and Jacobean Consort Music (Audio CD)

Elizabethan/Jacobean music is not particularly accessible to the average listener, who generally hears a bowdlerized background music at a Renfest or gets some sense of it through Anglican church harmony. Julian Bream, however, has given the music a face through his recordings of Dowland, Cutting, and others. His playing and arranging for the Consort is historically accurate - he plays with authentic lute thumb-under technique, for example, and the vocalists sing in what is thought to be accurate fashions.

It's an excellent recording, recommended as an introduction to this music.

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, June 4, 2011

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This review is from: Fantasies, Ayres and Dances - Elizabethan and Jacobean Consort Music (Audio CD)

I have always enjoyed this CD. So much when it became mislaid I have replaced it. I first listened to it over 20 years ago in a shop and first brought it that day.