The increasing popularity of consort music and lute songs at the 16th-century English court gave rise to a specific type of song, usually sung by a boy soprano together with a consort of 3 to 5 viols. These ‘consort songs’ flourished particularly during the reigns of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and her son James I (1603–1625). Especially attractive examples of such songs are gathered and arranged here, and sung by the Dutch soprano Klaartje van Veldhoven, who specialises in early and Baroque music, having regularly sung as a soloist with many of Europe’s foremost early-music ensembles and conductors such as Sigiswald Kuijken and Ton Koopman.
Works:
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anon.: Farewell the Bliss
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anon.: Sweet was the song the Virgin sang
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Baldwine: Cockow as I me walked
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Bennet: Venus' birds whose mournful tunes
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Byrd: Ah silly Soul
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Byrd: Browning (The Leaves be Green)
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Byrd: Browning a 5
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Byrd: If women could be fair - Ah, silly soul
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Byrd: In nomine a5
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Byrd: In nomine V a 5
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Dowland: George Whitehead's Almand
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Dowland: I shame at mine unworthiness
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Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae
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Dowland: Sir John Souch His Galiard
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Gibbons, Edward: What strikes the clocke?
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Nicholson, R: Cuckoo
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Patrick: Climb not too high
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Patrick: Send forth thy sighs
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Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note in F major, Z745
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Purcell: Six-Part In Nomine in G minor, Z746
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Tye: In Nomine: Seldom sene
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Weelkes: The nightingale, the organ of delight