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

Комментарии • 12

  • @dillarddillard-p4e
    @dillarddillard-p4e 20 часов назад +4

    Lovely

  • @billmiddendorf6226
    @billmiddendorf6226 10 месяцев назад +4

    Feel like I went back 500 years with this beautiful music! Wow!

    • @thomassavary5764
      @thomassavary5764 21 час назад +1

      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.

  • @thomassavary5764
    @thomassavary5764 21 час назад +6

    And some people see Byrd as a boring composer… Thank you very much for this recording !

    • @dillarddillard-p4e
      @dillarddillard-p4e 20 часов назад +2

      Don’t know how anyone could ever think of Byrds music as boring. Some just cannot be pleased.

    • @thomassavary5764
      @thomassavary5764 20 часов назад

      @@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 :-)

    • @dillarddillard-p4e
      @dillarddillard-p4e 19 часов назад

      @@thomassavary5764 I love them all and have some of their music in my collection.

    • @thomassavary5764
      @thomassavary5764 18 часов назад

      @@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 ?

  • @mcburcke
    @mcburcke 11 часов назад

    Beautifully done, indeed! Its an astonishingly brilliant piece by Byrd, one of my very favorites. Thank you.

  • @Marjorie-yt7pb
    @Marjorie-yt7pb 9 часов назад

    ❤wonderful . Thank you , gentlemen !🎉

  • @HandlesAreDumbbb
    @HandlesAreDumbbb 20 часов назад +3

    Could you post the singers’ names in the description please?

  • @andrewyarosh1809
    @andrewyarosh1809 7 часов назад

    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.