Byrd: Ye sacred muses

This page lists all recordings of Ye sacred muses, by William Byrd (1543-1623) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Byrdland

Byrdland


Byrd:

Ye sacred muses

Lullaby, my sweet little baby

Come to me, grief, for ever

I Thought That Love Had Been A Boy

Crowned with flow'rs and lilies

Danyel:

The Leaves Be Greene

Dowland:

Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)

Now, O now, I needs must part

Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)

Fine knacks for ladies

In darkness let me dwell

Galilei, V:

La Volta

Gibbons, O:

The Silver Swan

Fantasia of four parts

Holborne:

The Fairie-round

Galliard

Morley:

April is in My Mistress Face

Playford:

Under The Greenwood Tree

The Indian Queen

Purcell:

If love's a sweet passion

Fairest Isle

Man Is For The Woman Made

Dance For The Haymakers

An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193


Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)

Paragon Saxophone Quartet

A tantalising fusion of ancient and modern, ‘Byrdland’ explores the world of the Renaissance song accompanied by a modern-day saxophone quartet. All the songs on the disc were written by the great composers working in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Recent recordings by artists as diverse as Sting and Brian Asawa have partnered the singer with the more traditional lute.

Landor Records - LAN280

(CD)

£10.99 (£9.35 ex. VAT)

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.

Consorts & Consort Songs

Consorts & Consort Songs

Music by William Byrd & His Contemporaries


anon.:

When Daphne from fair Phoebus did fly

Farewell the Bliss

Byrd:

O that we woeful wretches

Sermone Blando

Ye sacred muses

Miserere mei

Out of the orient crystal skies

Christe Redemptor

O Lord, how vain

Christe qui Lux

Fantasia a 4

In Nomine a 4 in D minor

Dowland:

Sorrow, come

(set by William Wigthorpe)

Gibbons, O:

In Nomine a 4

Jonson:

Hear me, O God

(set as 'Four notes Pavan' by Alfonso Ferrabosco II)

Nicholson, R:

Joan quoth John

Ward:

Fantasia a 4


Jill Feldman (soprano)

Concerto delle Viole

Olive Music - OM004

(CD)

£12.99 (£11.06 ex. VAT)

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days.

Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 9

Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 9

Instrumental Music and Songs


Byrd:

Ye sacred muses

Tallis:

In Nomine I & II

A Solfinge Song

Salvator mundi

Fantasia

Felix Namque I & II

When shall my sorrowful sighing slake, partsong for 4 voices

Like as the doleful dove

O ye tender babes of England

Purge me, O Lord

Per haec nos

A point

Lesson 2 in 1

Remember not, O Lord God

Per haec nos

Tu nimirum


Andrew Benson-Williams (organ), Laurence Cummings (virginals), Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (counter tenor)

Charivari Agréable, Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - December 2004

Signum - SIGCD042

(CD - 2 discs)

£13.49 (£11.48 ex. VAT)

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.

William Byrd - Consort Songs

William Byrd - Consort Songs


Byrd:

Rejoice unto the Lord

Ah silly Soul

An aged dame

O dear life, when may it be

Come to me, grief, for ever

Who likes to love

O that most rare breast

All as a sea

Ye sacred muses

Constant Penelope

O God that guides the cheerful sun

Lullaby, my sweet little baby

How vain the toils


Robin Blaze (countertenor)

Concordia

‘Blaze continues to chart new territories of vocal expression. Blending purity with confidence, he draws on his vocal strengths—effortlessly sustained legato, delicate pianissimos, crisp declamation—to starkly varied effect, depending on the context of each song’ (BBC Music Magazine)

Hyperion - CDA67397

(CD)

£12.99 (£11.06 ex. VAT)

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.

The Very Best of English Song

The Very Best of English Song


anon.:

The Willow Song

Balfe:

Come into the garden, Maud

Bishop:

Home, Sweet Home

Brahe:

Bless this House

Butterworth, G:

Loveliest of Trees

Byrd:

Lullaby, my sweet little baby

Ye sacred muses

Carter, S:

Down Below

Dibdin:

Tom Bowling

Dowland:

Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)

Sorrow, stay

Awake, sweet love

Woeful heart

Shall I sue?

Me, me, and none but me

Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)

Finzi:

Since we loved

Rollicum-rorum

Gurney:

Down by the Salley Gardens

Black Stitchel

Ireland:

The Salley Gardens

Sea Fever

Johnson, R:

Where the bee sucks

Full fathom five

Keel:

Trade Winds

Morley:

It was a lover and his lass

O mistress mine

Mortimer:

The Smuggler's Song

Parry:

O mistress mine

Peel:

Bredon Hill

Purcell:

Fairest Isle

Music for a while, Z583

I attempt from love's sickness

If music be the food of love

An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193

Quilter:

Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)

Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson)

Come away, death

Shield:

The Plough Boy

Stanford:

Drake's Drum

The Old Superb

Swann:

The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud)

A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus)

The Wart Hog

trad.:

The Foggy, Foggy Dew

Greensleeves

Vaughan Williams:

Linden Lea

The Lamb

The Shepherd

Silent Noon

Walton:

Popular Song from 'Façade'

Warlock:

Yarmouth Fair

My Own Country

Passing By

Pretty Ring Time

Balulalow

Woodforde-Finden:

Kashmiri Song


Ian Bostridge, Jonathan Lemalu, Janet Baker, Emma Kirkby, Thomas Allen, Alfred Deller, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, et al

EMI - The Very Best of... - 5759262

(CD - 2 discs)

£12.99 (£11.06 ex. VAT)

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Elegeia

Elegeia


Bach, J C'ph:

Ach, daß ich Wassers genug hätte

Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'

Biber:

Balletti Lamentabili

Blow:

So ceas'd the rival crew

Byrd:

Ye sacred muses

Holborne:

The Funerals & Galliards

Purcell:

Fantazia 7 in C minor, Z. 738

Draw near, you lovers Z462

Schmelzer:

Lamento sopra la morta Ferdinandi III

Simpson, C:

Pavan & Galliard

Tallis:

In nomine


Matthew White (countertenor)

Les Voix Baroques

Analekta - AN29902

(CD)

£12.99 (£11.06 ex. VAT)

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days.

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