William Byrd: O Lord, How Vain | Dorothee Mields, Magdalene Harer & Boreas Quartett Bremen

The new album ‘On Byrd’s Wings’ by the Boreas Quartett Bremen, the Hathor Consort and the sopranos Dorothee Mields and Magdalene Harer is available here: play.audite.de/on-byrds-wings.
The heyday of English consort music coincided with the exciting shift in musical style between 1580 and 1630 from the renaissance to the early baroque period. William Byrd and his successors made their mark with sacred and secular songs, fantasies and dances. Honouring the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, this album displays the diversity and richness in colour of consort music.
On the one hand, English composers employed a strikingly sophisticated writing style, whilst on the other hand taking up popular music of their time. The results were atmospheric musical pictures reflecting the deep melancholy, pious confidence and full-bodied joie de vivre of Shakespeare’s era.
Dorothee Mields - soprano
Magdalene Harer - soprano
Boreas Quartett Bremen
Hathor Consort
On the album:
William Byrd: Have Mercy Upon Me, O God
Henry Lawes: A Dialogue on a Kisse
William Byrd: Christe qui lux es (III, à 4)
Thomas Campion: The Fairie Queene Proserpina
Robert Johnson: Satyr's Dance
Thomas Tomkins: Pavan (À 5)
Thomas Simpson: Galliard (À 5) (DIGITAL ONLY)
William Byrd: Who Made Thee, Hob, Forsake the Plough?
William Byrd: Triumph With Pleasant Melody
William Byrd: Christe qui lux es (II, à 4)
William Byrd: Sermone blando (À 4)
William Byrd: O Lord, How Vain
William Byrd: In Nomine (À 5)
William Byrd: Fantasia (À 6)
William Byrd: From Virgin's Womb
Thomas Simpson: Taffel-Consort
Orlando Gibbons: See, See, the Word Is Incarnate
recording: December 5-9, 2022
recording location: St. Cosmas and Damian Church, Lunsen
recording producer / mastering / editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Simon Böckenhoff
recording engineer / editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Justus Beyer
executive producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff
recording format: PCM 96 kHz, 24 bit
art direction and design: AB•Design
video: Burkhard Scheibe
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[@ruppiify]

The most beautiful soprano for me! excellent voice

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

dorothee mields, i bow for you most, most deeply.......grande artista

[@joaoaraujo5548]

Lindo ❤

[@Alucardh100]

Bravo

[@markosullivan4095]

What a gorgeous voice you have Dorothee ! that was divine.

[@HannaARTzink]

The sound of the soprano and wood instruments is excellent.