WILLIAM BYRD
Consort Songs
Emma Kirkby: soprano
FRETWORK
CD: harmonia mundi usa
HMU 907383 (2004)
Made in Germany
WILLIAM BYRD (c. 1540-1623)
Consort Songs
1. "My mind to me a kingdom is" 5:41
2. Fantasia a 6 (III) (from *Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets*, 1611) 4:15
3. "O Lord, how vain" 6:40
4. "Content is rich" 5:50
5. "Constant Penelope" 2:02
6. Pavan a 6 2:11
7. Galliard a 6 1:34
8. "My mistress had a little dog" 6:30
9. "O that most rare breast" 8:32
10. "The noble famous Queen" (While Phoebus us'd to dwell) 2:11
11. Fantasia a 4 (III) (*In manus tuas* from *Gradualia* I) 2:08
12. "Out of the orient crystal skies" 3:10
13. "O Lord, bow down thine heav'nly eyes" 5:23
14. Fantasia a 6 (II) 5:21
15. "Truth at the first" 2:45
16. "O you that hear this voice" 6:35
17. "He that all earthly pleasure scorns" 3:49
Total Time 74:37
Emma Kirkby: soprano
FRETWORK
Richard Boothby, Richard Campbell, Wendy Gillespie, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, Susanna Pell: viols
Recorded January 12-15, 2004 at St Bartholomew's Church, Orford, Suffolk, UK.
Executive Producer: Robina G. Young
Sessions Producer, Recording Engineer & Editor: Nicholas Parker
Design: Karin Elsener
Front Cover: *Portrait of a lady holding a dog and a tulip*, c. 1620, English School, Richard Philp, London, UK / Bridgeman Art Library.
◆本CDについて◆
デジパック仕様。貼付ブックレット（全47頁）にトラックリスト＆クレジット、David Pintoによる解説（英語原文と仏・独訳）、演奏者紹介（英・仏・独文）、歌詞（英語原文と仏・独訳）、「FRETWORK on harmonia mundi usa」（CDリスト／カラー図版6点）、歌詞ページにモノクロ図版6点＆カラー図版1点、アーティスト写真（カラー）2点。
ヴィオール・アンサンブル「フレットワーク」が古楽界の女王エマ・カークビーを迎えての「ウィリアム・バード：コンソート・ソング集」。#2、6、7、11、14はインストです。
カークビーとフレットワークでバードと来れば悪かろうはずがないですが、解説に引用されているバードの言葉「巧妙に作られた歌は一聴しただけではわからない、繰り返し耳を傾けることによって味わいが深まるのだ（a song that is well and artificially [i.e. artfully] made cannot be well perceiued nor understood at the first hearing, but the oftner you shall heare it, the better cause of liking you will discover.）」にもあるように、噛めば噛むほど味がでるタイプのCDかもしれないです。
★★★★★
My mistress had a little dog
「My mistress had a little dog
Whose name was Pretty Royal
Who neither hunted sheep nor hog
But was without denial
A tumbler fine that might be seen
To wait upon a fairy queen.
Upon his mistress he would wait
In courteous wise and humble,
And with his craft and false deceit,
When she would have him tumble,
Of coneys in the pleasant prime,
He would kill twenty at a time.
The goddess which Diana hight
Among her beagles dainty
Had not a hound so fair and white
Nor graced with such beauty;
And yet his beauty was not such,
But his conditions were as rich.
But out, alas! I'll speak no more.
My heart with grief doth shake;
This pretty dog was wounded sore
Ev'n for his mistress' sake:
A beastly man or manly beast
Knocked out his brains and so I rest.
A trial royal! a trial!
Oyez! Oyez!
Ye hounds and beagles all,
If ye sat in Appleton Hall,
Would you not judge that out of doubt
Tyburn were fit for such a lout?」
EMMA KIRKBY -William Byrd Consort Songs-WRATISLAVIA CANTANS 2006
