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Reviewer: J.
F. Weber
This is Volume 2 of The
English Pre-Restoration Verse-Anthem, an issue preceded by the complete
consort anthems of Orlando Gibbons (not received for review). William Byrd
dominates the program with the first eight tracks, one of them a fantasia.
Thomas Morley is better known for madrigals (Out of the deep is the anthem
sung here), while Edmund Hooper (c. 1553–1621) is not well known and
Benjamin Cosyn (c. 1570–after 1652), represented only by two organ
voluntaries, is ignored in the notes. John Mundy (1555–1630) is represented
by Sing joyfully on this program, while John Bull (1562/63–1628) has two
anthems and an organ fantasia. Hooper, if not exactly well known, was singled out for the excellence of O God of gods (heard on this disc) by Peter Phillips in his English Sacred Music. He is also represented by the canticles from the Great Service on a Westminster Abbey disc (34:6) and by an anthem from the Chirk Castle Partbooks on a Brabant Ensemble disc (33:1). The Byrd anthems were not nearly as well known as his Latin church music, and these are not easy to find on disc even now. James O’Donnell included Christ rising again (heard here) in his Great Service (29:5), but it is hard to find any of the other anthems, and that is for the most prominent composer on the disc. So this program will appeal to lovers of Anglican church music, because there are so few alternatives and the singing and playing are so fine. Silas Wollston has the four organ solos already mentioned, using the organ at St. Jude on the Hill in a restrained manner. The sagbutts and cornetts are used only in Byrd’s Look and bow down and Hooper’s O God of gods, which brings the disc to a rousing close. Harvey is exploring unfamiliar ground in this series, and doing it very well.
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