The Faerie Round

Music from the time of Elizabeth I.

This is PIVA’s long awaited third CD and for this the group returns to further explore the English repertoire of late Elizabethan England.  The Faerie Round is PIVA’s homage to Queen Elizabeth I and it features all the usual hallmarks of the band – from the quiet and contemplative to the rousing and stirring!

“Great musicianship and tight, rhythmic consort playing, and extemporization”, “the virtuosity of all the players is truly astounding” “the album has been put together with great care so that it flows, like a good concert, through a variety of moods and styles” “BRAVO on a very successful product there is just a lot of great energy in the playing” – feedback from our previous CDs 

 Track Listing

1. Quodling’s Delight – Anon (mixed consort)
2. Gray’s Inn the First and Gray’s Inn the Second – John Coperario (mixed consort)
3. The Jewes Dance – Richard Nicholson (mixed consort)
4. Farewell my good 1, for ever – Christopher Tye (Recorders and viol)
5. The Leaves be Green (The Browning Fantasy) – Clement Woodcock (recorders)
6. Fortune my Foe – Anon (crumhorns)
7. Mr Giles Hobies Galliard – John Dowland (mixed consort)
8. Paul’s Steeple – Anon (recorders and strings)
9. Wanton and The Widow’s Mite – Anthony Holborne (mixed consort)
10. De la Tromba Pavin – Richard Allison (shawms)
11. Almayne 56 – Anthony Holborne (bagpipes)
12. The Earl of Oxford’s March – William Byrd (shawms)
13. The Faerie Round – Anthony Holborne (mixed consort)
14. Kemp’s Jigs – Anon & John Playford (mixed consort)
15. Pavane 39 and Galliard 38 – Anthony Holborne (Crumhorns)
16. My Lord of Oxford’s Galliard – Anon (recorders and viol)
17. Prince Edward’s Paven and The Queine of Ingland’s Paven – Anon (recorders)
18. Nutmegs and Ginger – Anon (mixed consort)
19. Monsieur’s Alman – William Byrd (shawms)
20. Hackney – Clement Woodcock (shawms)
21. La Doune Cella and La Bounette – (bagpipes, shawms, hurdy gurdy)