Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie

Album by William Byrd & Alamire & Fretwork & David Skinner

Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie is a 1588 collection of vocal music by English composer William Byrd. The pieces blend sacred and secular texts in polyphonic, often intimate settings for three voices that exemplify English Renaissance contrapuntal technique and mark a phase in Byrd's output where he explored text-driven, small-scale vocal writing alongside his larger liturgical works.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    O God Give Ear
    3:50
  2. 2.
    Mine Eyes With Fervency of Sprite
    3:48
  3. 3.
    My Soul Oppressed With Care and Grief
    2:22
  4. 4.
    O Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Forget
    3:48
  5. 5.
    O Lord Who in Thy Sacred Tent
    4:00
  6. 6.
    O You That Hear This Voice
    6:15
  7. 7.
    Ambitious Love
    2:29
  8. 8.
    Although the Heathen Poets
    1:10
  9. 9.
    My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
    6:02
  10. 10.
    Farwell False Love
    6:17
  11. 11.
    If Women Could Be Fair
    3:44
  12. 12.
    Who Likes to Love
    5:38
  13. 13.
    La Verginella
    2:41
  14. 14.
    Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
    15:30
  15. 15.
    All as a Sea
    2:09
  16. 16.
    Prostrate, o Lord, I Lie
    2:10
  17. 17.
    Come to Me Grief Forever
    6:52

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Even From the Depth
    1:48
  2. 3.
    Blessed Is He That Fears the Lord
    3:51
  3. 4.
    How Shall a Young Man Prone to Ill
    2:24
  4. 5.
    Help Lord, for Wasted Are Those Men
    4:56
  5. 6.
    Lord in Thy Wrath Reprove Me Not
    4:04
  6. 7.
    Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
    5:53
  7. 8.
    Constant Penelope
    2:30
  8. 9.
    I Joy Not in No Earthly Bliss
    3:40
  9. 10.
    As I Beheld I Saw a Herdman Wild
    4:59
  10. 11.
    Where Fancy Fond
    5:19
  11. 12.
    What Pleasure Have Great Princes
    4:47
  12. 13.
    In Fields Abroad
    5:39
  13. 14.
    The Match That’s Made
    5:05
  14. 15.
    Why Do I Use My Paper Ink and Pen?
    7:12
  15. 16.
    Care for Thy Soul
    1:48
  16. 17.
    Susanna Fair
    3:34
  17. 18.
    If That a Sinner’s Sighs
    2:02
  18. 19.
    O That Most Rare Breast
    8:37

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