Vocal & instrumental master works of the English Renaissance
This recording was presented during the 10th anniversary celebration hold on November 27, 2007. In addition to the recorder consort, you can listen to guest musicians Christopher Field (countertenor), Israel Golani (lute), Matthias Havinga (organ) and Johan Hofmann (virginal).
When King Henry VIII moved from Greenwich to Windsor in 1510, the author Raphael Holinsed describes the young monarch in his chronicles 'exercising himselfe dailie in shooting, singing, dansing, wrestling, casting of the bare, plaieing at the recorders, flute, virginals, in setting of songs, and making of ballads'. Lute, cittern, virginal, organ and recorder seem to be the main instruments from which the existence of English chamber music can be determined. Henry VIII, who owned seventy-six recorders alone near his death, introduced the fashionable Italian practise of having complete consorts of instruments.
Lindoro MPC-0118, 2007
