An Emerald in a Work of Gold: Music from the Dow Partbooks

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An Emerald in a Work of Gold: Music from the Dow PartbooksSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO For their second Delphian recording, The Marian Consort have leafed through the beautifully calligraphed pages of the partbooks compiled in Oxford between 1581 and 1588 by the Elizabethan scholar Robert Dow. Sumptuous motets, melancholy consort songs and intricate, harmonically daring viol fantasies are seamlessly interwoven all brought to life by seven voices and the robust plangency of the Rose Consort of Viols in

Total playing time: 68:47

"a fine CD and one that should be on the shelves of all who love the Anglican choral tradition

perfectly chosen to show it and its repertoire at its best

Their rich

the cello – Hafliði Hallgrímsson is also a master of the epigrammatic miniature

already exhibits the sweep and grandeur of his maturity

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"Kitchen's playing is idiomatic

"This magnificent recording by organistMichael Bonaventure could very well be the recording capable of convincing the Messiaen detractors to switch camps

The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century composer/musicians on this recording each looked beyond their own shores and toward a sense of shared European culture and understanding

both in his technically assured performances and the informative

Charles Burney’s collecting of Allegri and Palestrina – make this truly a story of interconnections: a path on which the present’s footsteps constantly overlay the past’s

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