Lawes: Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol Richard Boothby

• 1 Prelude, VdGS 435 01:16
• 2 Country Coll, VdGS 421 01:17
• 3 A Jigge, VdGS 422 01:17
• 4 Almain, VdGS 491 02:27
• 5 Coranto, VdGS 512 01:29
• 6 Almain, VdGS 461 02:44
• 7 Coranto, VdGS 423 01:50
• 8 Air, VdGS 596 01:30
• 9 Almain, VdGS 462 02:23
• 10 Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol: Coranto VdGS 424 01:36
• 11 Almaine, VdGS 511 02:45
• 12 Coranto, VdGS 513 01:48
• 13 Saraband, VdGS 514 01:03
• 14 Almain, VdGS 463 01:57
• 15 Coranto, VdGS 465 01:34
• 16 Saraband, VdGS 467 01:11
• 17 Almain, VdGS 543 02:12
• 18 Coranto, VdGS 541 01:21
• 19 Almaine, VdGS 464 01:24
• 20 Corrant, VdGS 425 01:34
• 21 Saraband, VdGS 434 00:56
• 22 Almain (Pavan), VdGS 542 02:28
• 23 Coranto, VdGS 544 01:07
• 24 Almain, VdGS 430 03:16
• 25 Corant, VdGS 426 01:17
• 26 Sarabrand, VdGS 433 01:07
• 27 Corant, VdGS 427 01:53
• 28 Saraband, VdGS 591 01:01
• 29 Corant, VdGS 428 01:31
• 30 Saraband, VdGS 466 01:29
• 31 Coranto, VdGS 545 01:37
• 32 Coranto, VdGS 546 02:12
• 33 Corant, VdGS 429 01:50
• 34 Corant, VdGS 431 01:33
• 35 Sarabrand, VdGS 432 01:22
• Total Runtime 59:17

Info zu Lawes: Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol

Some of the most famous English composers of the 17th century wrote pieces for the lyra viol, or even entire anthologies. These composers include John Cooper, John Jenkins, Christopher Simpson, Charles Coleman, and William Lawes. Due to the number of strings and their rather flat layout, the lyra viol can approximate polyphonic textures, and because of its small size and large range, it is more suited to intricate and quick melodic lines than the larger types of bass viol.

Employed as musician in ordinary for lutes and voices at the court of Charles I, English composer Lawes (1602-1645) is most admired today for his sublime suites for viol consort. His less familiar solo repertoire for lyra-viol is performed here by Richard Boothby, a founder member of Fretwork, on the best preserved instrument of the period (Richard Meares, c. 1647-1725) which is now part of the Kessler Collection in the museum of the Royal College of Music, London.

Richard Boothby, viola da gamba

Richard Boothby
After studying with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, he founded the Purcell Quartet in 1984 and was a founder member of Fretwork in 1985. Since then his career has been bound up with these two groups with whom he records and tours; and through whom he plays the broadest range of repertory for the instrument from the earliest music to the latest contemporary music commissioned for viols.

With the Purcell Quartet he has recorded nearly 50 albums with them for Hyperion and Chandos. He tours Europe, Japan and the United States regularly with both ensembles. In 1998 he directed performances of Monteverdi’s ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea’ with the Purcell Quartet; and in 2001 directed them in a fully-staged production of ‘L’Orfeo’, with Mark Padmore in the title role.

As a soloist, he has given many recitals of the rich solo repertory, and in 1994 he recorded the three Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord with Shalev Ad-El for Chandos Records, to critical acclaim. He has given many recitals of the great suites by Antoine Forqueray, with whose music he feels a special affinity. He is professor of Viola da Gamba at the Royal College in London.

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