Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke

The only complete available recording of a landmark in Elizabethan keyboard music. With a huge catalogue of Brilliant Classics recordings to his credit, Pieter-Jan Belder has won particular praise. Now he focuses his attention on the greatest English composer of that age, with a volume dedicated to William Byrd, and to his largest single collection of music for the keyboard. Composer: William Byrd Artists: Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord) 🎵 Purchase or streaming: 💎 More Information: 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing. For more information and to request a license go to: Byrd’s vocal works would have assured him a place in history as the greatest English composer of his generation. Yet he was also arguably the outstanding composer of his time in the realm of instrumental music - probably the first musician to achieve supreme stature simultaneously in music for voices, for instrumental consort, and for solo keyboard instruments. Though it has passed through the hands of many celebrated figures such as Elizabeth I herself, My Lady Nevells Booke has belonged continuously to members of the Nevill family since 1830, and has been kept at the family seat near Tunbridge Wells in Kent. When Christopher Hogwood made the first complete recording of its contents, he wrote that it ’occupies a unique and privileged position from the musical, musicological, chronological and calligraphic points of view.’ The copying of the pieces was undertaken and completed in September 1591 by John Baldwin, a clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, and Lady Nevell’s name was incorporated into the design of the cover as well as the pieces dedicated to her opening each of the volume’s three main sections. The Lady Nevell in question was a generous, capable and cultivated woman who endowed a charitable school and an Oxford college. Like The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, My Ladye Nevells Booke embraces the most popular genres of its day. Its contents are typical fare for English Renaissance composers: dances, variation sets, marches, contrapuntal fantasies and programmatic pieces, and the repertory comes from a period beginning in the mid 1560s. Byrd makes each of these genres his own with consummate ingenuity; the variety and the beauty of the collection as a whole rewards players and listeners alike. Pieter-Jan Belder is one of the world’s foremost keyboard players, with an astonishing number of CD’s to his name. Critics praise his versatility, his innate feeling for style and his impeccable technique. Tracklist: My Ladye Nevells Booke, IWB 162: 0:00:00 I. My Ladye Nevels Grownde, MB57 0:05:39 II. Qui passe for my Ladye Nevell, MB19 0:09:23 III. The Marche Before the Battell, MB93 0:13:15 IV. The Battell, MB94 - The Souldiers Sommons - The Marche of the Foote Men - The Marche of the Horsmen - The Trumpetts - The Irishe Marche - The Bagpipe and the Drone - The Flute and the Droome - The Marche to the Fight - The Retreat 0:25:29 V. The Galliarde for the Victorie, MB95 0:27:23 VI. The Barelye Breake, MB92 0:35:29 VII. A Galliards Gygge, MB18 0:37:31 VIII. The Huntes Upp, MB41 0:44:18 IX. Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La, MB64 0:52:15 X. The Firste Pavian, MB29 0:56:37 XI. The Galliarde to the Same 0:58:19 XII. The II Pavian, MB71 1:00:56 XIII. The Galliarde to the Same 1:02:52 XIV. The III Pavian, MB14 1:07:42 XV. The Galliarde to the Same 1:09:15 XVI. The IIII Pavian, MB30 1:12:04 XVII. The Galliarde 1:13:48 XVIII. The V Pavian, MB31 1:18:58 XIX. The Galliarde 1:20:43 XX. Pavana the VI. Kinbrugh Goodd, MB32 1:25:22 XXI. The Galliard 1:27:06 XXII. The Seventh Pavian, MB74 1:31:23 XXIII. The Eighte Pavian, MB17 1:36:25 XXIV. The Passinge Mesures Pavan, MB2 1:42:31 XXV. The Galliarde 1:47:09 XXVI. A Voluntarie for my Ladye Nevell, MB61 1:52:07 XXVII. Will Yow Qalke the Woodes Soe Wylde, MB85 1:56:14 XXVIII. The Maidens Song, MB82 2:01:34 XXIX. A Lesson of Voluntarie, MB26 2:09:04 XXX. The Seconde Grownde, MB42 2:17:36 XXXI. Have with Yow to Walsingame, MB8 2:26:11 XXXII. All in a Garden Grine, MB56 2:30:06 XXXIII. Lord Willobies Welcome Home, MB7 2:32:42 XXXIV. The Carmans Whistle, MB36 2:38:02 XXXV. Hughe Ashstons Ground, MB20 2:45:26 XXXVI. A Fancie, MB25 2:51:05 XXXVII. Sellingers Rownde, MB84 2:58:04 XXXVIII. Munsers Almaine, MB88 3:05:19 XXXIX. The Tenthe Pavian, Mr W Peter, MB3 3:10:34 XL. The Galliard 3:12:37 XLI. A Fancie, MB46 3:17:49 XLII. A Voluntarie, MB27 👉 Social media links: Instagram: Facebook: TikTok: Spotify: Thank you for watching, we hope you enjoyed it! #Byrd #MyLadyeNevellsBooke #Harpsichord #ClassicalMusic #BrilliantClassics