William Byrd, Elizabeth Farr – My Ladye Nevells Booke

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Label:	Naxos – 8.570139-41
Series:	Early Music
Format:	3 x CD, Album, Stereo
Country:	USA & Canada
Released:	Jul 2007
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Renaissance

Tracklist

	CD1
1-1	No.1 My Ladye Nevells Grownde	6:37
1-2	No.2 Qui Passe: For My Ladye Nevell	4:25
1-3	No.3 Before March Before The Battell	4:33
	No. 4 The Battell
1-4	The Souldiers Sommons	1:26
1-5	The Marche Of The Footemen	0:57
1-6	The Marche Of The Horsmen	1:17
1-7	The Trumpetts	1:11
1-8	The Irishe March	1:32
1-9	The Bagpipe And The Drone	1:15
1-10	The Flute And The Droome	2:04
1-11	The Marche To The Fighte	2:28
1-12	The Retreat	0:54
1-13	No. 5 The Galliarde For The Victorie	2:12
1-14	No. 6 The Barleye Breake	9:31
1-15	No. 7 Galliards Gygge	2:16
1-16	No. 8 The Huntes Upp	7:54
1-17	No. 9 Ut Re Mi So Fa Sol La	8:37
1-18	No. 10 The Firste Pavian	4:41
1-19	No. 11 The Galliarde To The First Pavian	1:57
1-20	No.12 The Seconde Pavian	2:46
1-21	No. 13 The Galliarde To The Seconde Pavian	2:06
1-22	No. 14 The Third Pavian	4:51
1-23	No. 15 The Galliarde To The Third Pavian	1:54
	CD2
2-1	No. 16 The Fourth Pavian	2:38
2-2	No. 17 The Galliarde To The Fourth Pavian	1:57
2-3	No. 18 The Fifte Pavian	4:43
2-4	No. 19 The Galliarde To The Fifte Pavian	1:56
2-5	No. 20 Pavian The Sixte: Kinbrugh Goodd	5:02
2-6	No. 21 The Galliarde To The Sixte Pavian	1:58
2-7	No. 22 The Seventh Pavian	4:36
2-8	No. 23 The Eighte Pavian	4:47
2-9	No. 24 The Passinge Mesures: The Nynthe Pavian	7:20
2-10	No. 25 The Galliarde To The Nynthe Pavian	5:31
2-11	No. 26 A Voluntaire: For My Ladye Nevell	5:37
2-12	No. 27 Will Yow Walke The Woods Soe Wylde	4:35
2-13	No. 28 The Maidens Songe	5:46
2-14	No. 29 A Lesson Of Voluntaire	9:17
2-15	No. 30 The Seconde Grownde	9:49
	CD3
3-1	No. 31 Have With Yow To Walsingame	9:20
3-2	No. 32 All In A Garden Grine	4:47
3-3	No. 33 Lord Willobies Welcome Home	2:59
3-4	No. 34 The Carmans Whistle	5:06
3-5	No. 35 Hughe Astons Grownde	8:36
3-6	No. 36 A Fancie	6:21
3-7	No. 37 Sellingers Rownde	7:32
3-8	No. 38 Munsers Almaine	8:28
3-9	No. 39 The Tennthe Pavian: Mr W. Peter	5:06
3-10	No. 40 The Galliard To The Tennthe Pavian	2:18
3-11	No. 41 A Fancie	6:05
3-12	No. 42 A Voluntaire	3:31

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Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Copyright © – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Pressed By – Americ Disc
Recorded At – Ploger Hall

Credits

Composed By – William Byrd
Cover [picture] – Keith Hill (5)
Harpsichord – Elizabeth Farr
Liner Notes – Elizabeth Farr, Keith Hill (5)
Producer – Wolfgang Rübsam (2)

Notes

℗ & © 2007. CD made in Canada; printed & assembled in USA. Comes in a “chunky” jewel case, with an 8pp booklet having notes in English. Total playing time 224:51.

Recorded August, 2006 at Ploger Hall, Manchester, Michigan, USA, using an edition of the music originally published by J. Curwen, London (1926) & reprinted by Dover Publications (c.1969).

Cover painting: detail of a harpsichord soundboard by Keith Hill (1978), photographed by Keith Hill.

My Ladye Nevells Booke is a collection of 42 keyboard pieces by the greatest English composer of his day, William Byrd. It includes dances, variations, contrapuntal fancies and battle pieces, and was compiled seemingly from the composer's for Lady Nevell, half-sister to Frances Bacon and third wife of Sir Henry Nevell of Billingbere, who was her second husband. The volume, dated 1591 and handsomely bound was acquired by the British Library in 2006. It constitutes a significant monument to Byrd's achievement as a composer for the virginals.