Скачать или смотреть Wyllyam Byrde, Will Yow Walke the Woods so Wild

Michael Maxwell Steer performs Byrde's variations on the popular song known variously 'As I did walk the woods so wild, wandering, wandering' and 'Will you walk the woods so wild, wandering, wandering'. There are 13 variations, written 30-40 years before the Gibbons set. This is own Byrde's spelling of his name.
The music comes down to us in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a unique collection of Elizabethan keyboard music probably compiled by the catholic recusant Francis Tregian during his 24 year incarceration in the Fleet Prison. Byrde's relationship with his fellow-catholic is not known, but this collection is the main source of his music.
For a further glimpse into this world visit my BBCr3 programme about Thomas Coryate http://msteer.co.uk/audi/bbc/mp3corya.... The harpsichord is a flemish model made in 1996 by Michael Ellis-James, believed to be from a Delin kit.
More about Michael Maxwell Steer at http://msteer.co.uk/