Thurston Dart

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