Performer: Capella de la Torre, Charles Daniels
Conductor: Katharina Bäuml
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Carpe Diem
Release: 2012
Size: 826 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: England be Glad [Henry VIII’s Ms. No. 96]
02. Ockeghem: Requiem – Introitus: Requiem aeternam
03. Henry VIII: Gentil prince de renom (arr. J. Stevens)
04. anon.: Nil maius superi vident a 5 [Ms.-VM 1578.M91]
05. trad.: The Hunt is Up
06. Henry VIII: Grene growith the holy
07. anon.: Jay pryse amours [Henry VIII’s MS, No. 37]
08. Cornysh the elder: Blow thi horne hunter
09. Gervaise: Livre de danceries, Book 3 – Pavan, “La Battaglia”
10. anon.: And I Were a Maiden [Henry VIII’s Ms. No. 101]
11. anon.: Pray We to God a 3 [Henry VIII’s Ms. No. 97]
12. Busnois: Fortuna desperata (arr. for chamber ensemble)
13. trad.: Fortune My Foe
14. Byrd: Fortune (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) (arr. K. Bauml and W. Dongois)
15. Henry VIII: If love now reynyd
16. Cornysh the elder: A robyn, gentyl robyn
17. Henry VIII: Taunder naken a 3 (arr. for recorder ensemble)
18. Livre de danceries, Book 3: Pavan, “La Battaglia”
19. Henry VIII: Pastyme with good companye
20. Henry VIII: Helas madam
21. anon.: La doune cella (from the Mulliner Book)
22. anon.: Adieu madame ma maistresse [Henry VIII’s Ms. No. 9]
23. Verdelot: Sancta Maria virgo virginum a 6
“Harry our King”, the new CD of the well-known German ensemble Capella de la Torre, is a fairytale-like interpretation of music from the court of King Henry VIII Tudor of England.
King Henry was a well-educated and creative art lover, who played and composed music himself and gathered at his court artists and scholars from all over Europe. On this vibrant new recording songs and dances of Henry VIII and his contemporaries are made into a musical caleidoscope of courtial life with all its aspects of love, leisure and religiousness. Famous tenor Charles Daniels with his unique Old English pronounciation makes this music very much alive!