The Gesualdo Six: Vigilate by William Byrd
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024
- Vigilate • Music by William Byrd • The Gesualdo Six, directed by Owain Park
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About the music
The many clear borrowings from the Italian madrigal tradition that colour William Byrd’s lively Vigilate (probably dating from early in his career) suggest it was perhaps aimed at less directly religious circles, and could even be interpreted as a warning to his fellow recusant Catholics to ‘keep watch’ against spies. The word-painting throughout is vivid and detailed; listen for the ascending motif at ‘an galli cantu’ representing a cock crowing, the slowing harmonic pulse and lulling suspensions that accompany the sleeping faithful at ‘dormientes’, and the sudden coming together of the voice parts at ‘omnibus dico’ (‘I say to all’). [Programme note: Owain Park © 2018]
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We have also recorded this track on our first album, ‘English Motets’: a programme linking two hundred years of music from medieval and Tudor England (available here: bit.ly/english-....
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Filmed at Castle Howard in December 2020 by Patrick Allen
Lovely
Feel like I went back 500 years with this beautiful music! Wow!
As subjective it may be, I find this music much more modern (and interesting) than the music composed in the late 18th and the 19th century.
And some people see Byrd as a boring composer… Thank you very much for this recording !
Don’t know how anyone could ever think of Byrds music as boring. Some just cannot be pleased.
@@dillarddillard-p4e Many people, even among the classical-music lovers, find Renaissance music boring, Byrd like the others. And even among Renaissance lovers, some people who love Palestrina or Lassus just don’t like Byrd. As for me, it is Palestrina whom I often find a bit boring :-)
@@thomassavary5764 I love them all and have some of their music in my collection.
@@dillarddillard-p4e So do I. Even if Palestrina is not among my favourite composers, I love some of his works, like the Motet and the mass Viri Galilæi, or, of course, the mass Papæ Marcelli. I would say my favourite composers from the Renaissance are Gombert, Brumel, Manchicourt, Tallis, Sheppard, Byrd, as well as Wert, Monteverdi and Gesualdo, for the late Renaissance. And yours ?
Beautifully done, indeed! Its an astonishingly brilliant piece by Byrd, one of my very favorites. Thank you.
❤wonderful . Thank you , gentlemen !🎉
Could you post the singers’ names in the description please?
Lovely singing and interpretation. But seriously? In 2024, six highly trained musicians need some guy flapping his arms at them? Isn’t the whole point of one-on-a-part chamber music singing to listen and connect one another without a metronome martinet in front of you? Unless he’s paying all the bills and your salaries, dump the conductor. You don’t need him.