Lawes: The Consort Setts for 5 & 6 viols and organ

Lawes: The Consort Setts for 5 & 6 viols and organ

Lawes: The Consort Setts for 5 & 6 viols and organ
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Composer: William Lawes
Performer: Fretwork
Performer: Paul Nicholson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-12-23
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I. Fantazy
  2. II. Aire
  3. III. Fantazy
  4. IV. Aire
  5. I. Fantazy
  6. II. Fantazy
  7. III. Aire
  8. Countrey Coll (VdGS 421)
  9. Jigg (VdGS 422)
  10. I. Fantazy
  11. II. Paven
  12. III. Almaine
  13. I. Fantazy
  14. II. Paven
  15. III. Aire
  16. I. Ffantasie (VdGS 573)
  17. II. Humour (VdGS 568)
  18. I. Fantazia
  19. II. Fantazia
  20. III. Paven
  21. IV. Aire
Music CD 2
  1. I. Paven
  2. II. Fantazy
  3. III. Paven
  4. I. Fantazy
  5. II. Aire
  6. III. Paven
  7. IV. Aire
  8. Almaine (VdGS 430)
  9. Corant (VdGS 431)
  10. Saraband (VdGS 432)
  11. I. Fantazy
  12. II. Fantazy
  13. III. Aire
  14. I. Fantazya
  15. II. On The Playnsong
  16. III. Aire
  17. Aire (VdGS 462)
  18. Aire (VdGS 463)
  19. I. Fantazia
  20. II. Aire
  21. III. Inominy

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Free Music Review: Who Says England Had No Great Composers?
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In our era of elite musical professionalism and expiring musical skills in the general population, the "string quartet" has become the most equisite esoteric ensemble of all. Such was not the case in the past, when quartets were often commissioned by dilettantes and performed by very capable amateurs. Quartets were the pinnacle of "recreational" music long before they became items on university concert series. But even before the popularity of the quartet, there was a very sophisticated and challenging repertory of domestic music for a "closed consort" of strings, specifically for consorts of violas da gamba, which were the amateur's instrument par excellance. Violins remained largely the tools of professional players, for public music, until the gambas faded from popularity. In England, yeoman farmers and royal favorites all shared the passion for gamba consorts; often a chest of gambas was the most valuable item mentioned in the wills of people of modest means.

FRETWORK is unquestionably the finest gamba ensemble since the rebirth of "early music". Appropriately British to the soles of their feet, FRETWORK has quietly recorded masterwork after masterwork of English renaissance polyphony for almost thirty years now. Their performances include collaborations with vocal ensembles as well as disks dedicated to such great but forgotten composers as William Lawes and Christopher Tye. They've also inspired (and commissioned) modern compositions for their instruments. The name FRETWORK on the cover of any CD is almost a guarantee of excellence.

William Lawes was a composer of the "backwaters" of musical history, writing his Consorts Sets in the era of Charles I, when the gamba was already losing ground to the violin, most probably for household performance among conservative rural gentlefolk. Nevertheless, he was a composer of startling modernity, making fresh use of 'historical' forms such as the In Nomine in tandem with bold dissonances and avant-garde experimentations in tonal progressions. If you suppose that consort music prior to Haydn and Mozart was basically simple in structure and naive in emotional palette, then you have to hear this disk. William Lawes should never have been forgotten.
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