Music to entertain Henry VIII

Purcell Consort of Voices; Grayston Burgess
Musica Reservata; Michael Morrow
475 8582 4 DH
* DIGITAL-ONLY REISSUE *

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A veritable feast of instrumental and vocal delights by King Henry VIII and his contemporaries. Pioneering recording of early sixteenth-century English music combing voices and a whole array of different instruments.

"There is plenty to delight the ear on this record... Scarcely two pieces have been scored alike, and with crumhorns, shawms and rebecs there is no attempt to soften down the sometimes crudely virile timbres which undoubtedly belong to the music ... the record is thoroughly enjoyable..."
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Tracklisting

1. Cornish: Blow thy horn, hunter
2. Barbireau: En frolyck weson
3. Henry VIII: Taunder taken
4. Cornish: Ah Robin
5. Anon: Three Dances: Basse danse: Il me sufit - Galliard: Rocha el fuso - Pavane: Vegnando da Bologna
6. Richefort: Chanson: De mon triste desplaisir
7. Anon: Instrumental fancy (recorders)
8. Cornish: Adieu, mes amours
9. Isaac: La my
10. Anon: I am a jolly foster
11. Busnois: Fortune esperĀŽe
12. Anon: Two Dances: La morisque · Passo e mezzo
13. Anon: Where be ye, my love?
14. Non: My Lady Carey's Dumpe
15. Anon: Il buratto
16. Daggere: Downberry down
17. Anon: Henry VIII's Pavane
18. Anon: Two dances - Galliard: La traditora · Allemande prince
19. Anon: Hey trolly lo
20. Anon: The antyck
21. Henry VIII: Pastime with good company
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