Sad Steps

New settings of Renaissance Poems

Virelai
Catherine King, voice
William Lyons, renaissance flute
Susanna Pell, viol
Jacob Heringman, lute

Introduction, Biographies, Track details, Audio files, Reviews

1) My lute, awake!
(variations on a theme by Gail Gillispie)
Andrew Keeling | text Sir Thomas Wyatt

2) With how sad steps, O Moon
Andrew Keeling | text Sir Philip Sidney

3) Für Hermen
Jacob Heringman | instrumental

4) Easter
Malcolm Bruno | text Edmund Spenser

5) A Fancy
(No. 2 from “Love-in-idleness”, Op. 41)
Andrew Ager | instrumental

6) Sonnet 105
Andrew Ager | text William Shakespeare

7) Lullaby
Roy Marks | instrumental

8) Songe 17
Alastair Greig | text Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester

9) The Fair Singer
David Stoll | text Andrew Marvell

10) Sounds of Woe
David Stoll | instrumental

11) Rondeau de Panurge (Per Serafino Calbarsi I)
Fabrice Fitch | text François Rabelais

12) A fragment of the mermaid’s song
David Stoll | instrumental

13) To Julia
Elizabeth Liddle | text Robert Herrick

14) Tombeau
Elizabeth Liddle | instrumental

15) The pale queen of the silent night
Jonathan Chenette | text Charles Best

16) Orpheus with his lute
Bryan Johanson | text William Shakespeare

17) Trio
Robert Fripp/John Wetton/David Cross/Bill Bruford,
arr. Andrew Keeling | instrumental

18) Coda: My lute awake
Andrew Keeling | text Sir Thomas Wyatt