Artist: Richard Boothby
Album: Lawes: Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 59:35
Total Tracks: 35
Total Size: 1,04 GB

Tracklist:

01. Richard Boothby – Prelude, VdGS 435 (01:16)
02. Richard Boothby – Country Coll, VdGS 421 (01:17)
03. Richard Boothby – A Jigge, VdGS 422 (01:17)
04. Richard Boothby – Almain, VdGS 491 (02:27)
05. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 512 (01:29)
06. Richard Boothby – Almain, VdGS 461 (02:44)
07. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 423 (01:50)
08. Richard Boothby – Air, VdGS 596 (01:30)
09. Richard Boothby – Almain, VdGS 462 (02:23)
10. Richard Boothby – Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol: Coranto VdGS 424 (01:36)
11. Richard Boothby – Almaine, VdGS 511 (02:45)
12. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 513 (01:48)
13. Richard Boothby – Saraband, VdGS 514 (01:03)
14. Richard Boothby – Almain, VdGS 463 (01:57)
15. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 465 (01:34)
16. Richard Boothby – Saraband, VdGS 467 (01:11)
17. Richard Boothby – Almain, VdGS 543 (02:12)
18. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 541 (01:21)
19. Richard Boothby – Almaine, VdGS 464 (01:24)
20. Richard Boothby – Corrant, VdGS 425 (01:34)
21. Richard Boothby – Saraband, VdGS 434 (00:56)
22. Richard Boothby – Almain (Pavan), VdGS 542 (02:28)
23. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 544 (01:07)
24. Richard Boothby – Almain, VdGS 430 (03:16)
25. Richard Boothby – Corant, VdGS 426 (01:17)
26. Richard Boothby – Sarabrand, VdGS 433 (01:07)
27. Richard Boothby – Corant, VdGS 427 (01:53)
28. Richard Boothby – Saraband, VdGS 591 (01:01)
29. Richard Boothby – Corant, VdGS 428 (01:31)
30. Richard Boothby – Saraband, VdGS 466 (01:29)
31. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 545 (01:37)
32. Richard Boothby – Coranto, VdGS 546 (02:12)
33. Richard Boothby – Corant, VdGS 429 (01:50)
34. Richard Boothby – Corant, VdGS 431 (01:33)
35. Richard Boothby – Sarabrand, VdGS 432 (01:22)

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Some of the most famous English composers of the 17th century wrote pieces for the lyra viol, or even entire anthologies. These composers include John Cooper, John Jenkins, Christopher Simpson, Charles Coleman, and William Lawes. Due to the number of strings and their rather flat layout, the lyra viol can approximate polyphonic textures, and because of its small size and large range, it is more suited to intricate and quick melodic lines than the larger types of bass viol.

Employed as musician in ordinary for lutes and voices at the court of Charles I, English composer Lawes (1602-1645) is most admired today for his sublime suites for viol consort. His less familiar solo repertoire for lyra-viol is performed here by Richard Boothby, a founder member of Fretwork, on the best preserved instrument of the period (Richard Meares, c. 1647-1725) which is now part of the Kessler Collection in the museum of the Royal College of Music, London.