Consort Music (2CD)

Eloquence celebrates the art of Thurston Dart, the harpsichordist, conductor and editor who played a leading role in the early-music revival in postwar Britain. A feast of melancholia: three L’Oiseau-Lyre albums of early English chamber music from the dawn of the period-performance era, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time with much material new to CD.

Thurston Dart prepared the performing editions of nearly all the music on this 2CD compilation, but he struck a fine balance between scholarly rectitude, practical concerns and a performer’s instincts.

TRACK LIST

CD 1      
JOHN DOWLAND
1–21 Lachrimae, 1604 
Philomusica of London
Thurston Dart
 
JACOBEAN CONSORT MUSIC
22–24 JOHN COPRARIO Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ
25. ANONYMOUS Miserere (Parthenia In-Violata) 
26. JOHN WARD Ayre 
27. THOMAS LUPO Fantasia 
28–30 JOHN COPRARIO Suite for two violins, bass viol and chamber organ 
 
CD 2  
1–3 JOHN COPRARIO Suite for violin, bass viol and chamber organ 
4. TOBIAS HUME Captain Hume’s Galliard 
5. JOHN COPRARIO Fantasia for violin, bass viol and continuo 
6. TOBIAS HUME Captain Hume’s Lamentations 
7. ORLANDO GIBBONS Galliard 
Jacobean Ensemble
Thurston Dart
 
DANCES OF SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
8. JOHN DOWLAND Pavan  
 
THOMAS SIMPSON
9. Ricercar 
10. Alman  
11. PHILIPS Passamezzo Pavan 
 
ANTHONY HOLBORNE
12. Pavan ‘The Funerals’ 
13. Galliard 
14. Alman: The Honie-suckle  
15. Coranto ‘Heigh-Ho Holiday’ 
16. RICHARD FARRANT Four-Note Pavan 
 
ROBERT JOHNSON
17. The Temporiser 
18. The Witty Wanton 
19. JOHN ADSON Ayre  
20. ALFONSO FERRABOSCO JR. Four-Note Pavan 
 
WILLIAM BRADE
21. Galliard  
22. Alman  
23. Coranto 
 
Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Thurston Dart, harpsichord / director
 
FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA