Elizabethan Pavans

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Oleg Timofeyev, a Russian-born American lutenist, brings together a personal collection of some of his favourite Elizabethan pavans, each carefully chosen from lute books or unpublished manuscripts, spanning the length of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign. What intrigues Timofeyev is the special status that the pavan held during this time, and how it morphed from a simple dance to a slow, grand, fantasy-like composition. This album showcases this fascinating development; from two pavans inspired by Elizabeth’s predecessor, King Henry VIII, the first of which includes a marvellous ‘fanfare’ section, to a collection of anonymous pavans that utilised common harmonic progressions for the first time, delighting the post-Renaissance listener. The famous John Dowland features on this release, with his tongue-in-cheek ‘Semper Downland semper dolens’ (a complaint that he neverheld a position at Elizabeth’s court), as well as Daniel Bacheler and John Daniel, whose eccentric, almost decadent style brought the art of the pavan to its highest degree of sophistication.
Oleg Timofeyev is a lutenist, guitarist, musicologist and documentary film director.
Since arriving in America in 1989, he has studied with the likes of Hopkinson Smith and Peter Williams, and has gone on to record dozens of CDs. He has been responsible for the revival of the seven-string Russian guitar, and in 2008 together with his wife he made a compelling documentary about his former guitar teacher, Kamill Frautschi.
The Pavan is an ancient Spanish-Italian Dance form, solemn, slow and stately. It gained great popularity in Renaissance England, in which it developed from a straight dance form in the time of Henry VIII to a highly sophisticated composition of a slow, rhapsodic and fantasy-like nature, in which the composer expressed his often melancholy emotions. The composers featured are Cotton, Ferrabosco, Philips, Johnson, Mason, Robinson, Dowland, Daniel, Bacheler and several Anonymi. Oleg Timofeyev is a highly respected lutenist, guitarist, musicologist and documentary film director. He wrote the excellent liner notes for this release.
Artist: Oleg Timofeyev lute
00:00:00 Kyng Harry the VIIIth Pavyn
00:01:58 The Kinges Pavane
00:03:43 Pavan
00:06:31 Quadro pavan
00:08:48 Anthony pavan
00:11:06 Passamezzo pavan (Marsh Lute Book)
00:14:41 Pavan
00:18:07 Quadro Pavan (Willoughby Lute Book)
00:20:10 Pavana cromatica
00:23:37 Spanish pavan
00:28:28 Philips pavan
00:31:48 Mason pavan
00:36:03 Lachrimae pavan
00:40:53 Spanish pavan
00:43:57 Semper Dowland semper dolens
00:47:14 Sims pavan
00:52:06 Pavan (Cozens Lue Book)
00:54:58 Pavan
01:00:14 Rosamund

[@shin-i-chikozima]

It's like watching a 16 th century processional dance This wonderful and beautiful and comfortable music is unrivaled, and promotes peace and serenity of the soul

[@center1581]

this album is a certified banger.

[@MegaCirse]

Just turn it on

[@excelsior999]

That's quite a compliment, mate.

[@jayakumarkaarikuzhy4713]

I had noticed this on my phone many times but ignored it as very old music. This is absolute magic, indescribable and I have enjoyed it in one go . To me, this music is apt for meditation and I have meditated. What a pleasure to 'listen to ' an indescribable and astounding 'magic'! I have heard about listeners becoming asleep, but meditating while hearing the music? I have learned by experience. Great music. Gracias.

[@BrilliantClassics]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@monb.2017]

You are old.

[@Timofeyev63]

As the performer of this collection, I am very happy that you find it enjoyable. Keep meditating, it's a great use of this beautiful repertoire.

[@jayakumarkaarikuzhy4713]

@@Timofeyev63 Thanks very much.

[@jayakumarkaarikuzhy4713]

@@monb.2017 To some extent the purpose behind your query is correct: generally, one enjoys what is virtue, what is sublime,etc., when one becomes old. But there's exception to this rule; nowadays even some young people are increasingly discarding what is superfluous and delve deep into many arts, including music, to quench their thirst for knowledge. Sadly you are the only old-timer among young folks happy with what you have. Start hearing all kinds of music and then naturally you will become an aficionado.

[@maryoleary5044]

These seem earlier than her court...his time with a Medieval quality. Very crisp and clean! 🇬🇧

[@GodeCynningaz5386]

Brilliant, Mr Timofeyev.

[@dominiquelarueenchantez-vous]

Thanks for sharing. I love the first one with the little drum on the wood of the lute.

[@MegaCirse]

Je perds la tête depuis un assez long temps mais cette musique ensoleillée, m'aide à flotter & garder la tête hors de l'eau💥

[@Timofeyev63]

Je suis si heureux que mes humbles sons aient aidé -- bonne chance !

[@pamtime22]

Elizabeth I probably was rockin to this music. It's beautiful, relaxing and very emotionally moving.

[@petebondurant58]

I doubt that Queen Elizabeth spent much time at relaxation.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@Gavin MacNeish In the slow petrifaction sense.

[@thomasc390]

🎄Thank you!🎄

[@kevinsherwinguitar]

Gorgeous, and one of the most moving Lachrimae Pavans I've heard.

[@wakanavkirachel8068]

SPOT ON!!!! I have been looking for THIS set of type of instruments and style for a looooong time!!!! I have been downloading lutes and mandarins [spelling?], and the etc.. and HERE was what I was looking for, for 4 years!!! THANKS!!!! Buying the album!!! and you introduced me to this fella.. I am gleeful

[@jenelosedire]

Mandolins? ;-)

[@wakanavkirachel8068]

YYYYYeeeppp! Lol! figured the true spelling of it later, then, you caught it and sent... THAT is the one!!

[@steveegallo3384]

No...you were right the first time: Chinese MANDARINS of pre-modern Ming antiquity espoused the musical arts over all others and wielded the mandolin and lute with formidable technique and zeal

[@wakanavkirachel8068]

Oh my!!! Sometimes a word INSISTS it be.. and you just proved it as an example.. you made me laugh.. Thanks!!!!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Mandarins played mandolins.

[@lisaowens5070]

Such grace and beauty!

[@marcus-flavius]

Which Grace? Which Beauty?

[@xyzabcc56]

Really Amazing

[@claudiapinho-memorias]

Grata por nos presentear músicas tão belas de um passado cuja atmosfera ainda nos impressiona e deleita.

[@Timofeyev63]

¡Gracias por tus cálidas palabras! Si quieres un ambiente más inusual del pasado, busca en youtube "Russian Guitar 1800-1850" - este es otro lanzamiento que tuve en colaboración con Brilliant Classics. ¡Ese es más de SIETE horas!

[@ColetteLeCouteur]

Need to write an essay on Hamlet for my masters right now, this music is really getting me in the right mood!

[@fernandovera2045]

Maravillosa música.

[@sherpah]

love it, makes me travel to a mysterious world with some legendary kings ^^

[@danawinsor1380]

Bravo! Beautiful playing.

[@pkrones]

I don't really know what pavan is, but I love it! Such uplifting peaceful music ❤

[@brianbahneman4294]

a slow dance or the music thereof... also a Hindu God idk

[@Davmm96]

Slow introductory dance, often used to walk onto the dance floor. So one can imagine the bal getting ready to start, then people form couples to take place in the hall when the pavan starts. The dance basic form is : step, pause, step, pause, 3 quick steps, pause. So i'd say one ends up covering 3 meters each 4 mesures. In Canadian french we still use the verb "pavaner" , mostly to say that someone is going around while showing off a bit.

[@daxfitzgerald8847]

I think I like this cause it takes me to a place where I can forget the the electric guitar was ever invented

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This has a healing effect, and a healing exilir

[@maguelonneherault8181]

A great periodin England History. Excellent

[@Ganpignanus]

unless you were one of the wives of henry viii or crossed him...

[@excelsior999]

@@Ganpignanus ... or unless you were Sir Thomas More. Hank thought of him as his best friend. St. Thomas More, a devoted Catholic, was beheeaded under the reign of Henry VII, essentially because he wouldn't join Henry's new religion - The Churchh of England. Thanks to Henry, King Charles (who was just hoping & praying that he wouldn't die before his mum) is now the head of the C.of E..

[@jenelosedire]

Brilliant, love it!

[@cardioforme]

Beautiful!

[@heymul25]

Smile, Henry. This is really great stuff.

[@darrenhirst9900]

He looks like he wants to go down the pub and gets that look off the wife 😁

[@hedgemist691]

@@darrenhirst9900 Edward doesn't look too pleased either.

[@darrenhirst9900]

@@hedgemist691 No he doesn't dose he?

[@carlosmontes6568]

A delight for senses! ,.. Thank you.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

It's a lovely compilation. Lovelier still if someone had taken the time and trouble to couple the composers to the pieces we are listening to instead of just listing some of them in the synopsis. I like to know from whose pen doth music comes.

[@Timofeyev63]

Very true, for that I can send you a signed copy of this CD of mine ))

[@dimitrigoldobine3408]

Bravo, dear Guru !

[@colinhazell6259]

Super!

[@irinameshkova2832]

Пожалуй, джазу и року, которые всегда у меня фоном, придётся потесниться.😊

[@Timofeyev63]

Спасибо, дорогая Ирина, за тёплые слова о моих скромных "Паванах." Ещё в студенчестве я задумал такую программу, и всё думал, делать/не делать. Тогда ещё не было большого опыта. Но сейчас я очень рад, что мне удалось поделиться этой музыкой с Вами! Джаз и рок подождут, их и так хватает в пространстве ))

[@marlenemontooth4760]

Lovely music, but I cannot deal with the constant advert interruptions.

[@nobus2meg211]

Ads won't show up if you download AdBlocker on your browser👍

[@Pavanesound]

@@nobus2meg211 What about on You tube premium? That would get rid of the ads I think. Is this available as a CD?

[@nobus2meg211]

@@Pavanesound Yeah, but you have to pay for the premium service. Have no idea about the CD. I guess if you download this video via KZbin video downloader websites and put the file in the CD?

[@Benn61]

@@Pavanesound I would do that if they did not force me to buy alot of junk next to the two things i want from premium (no ads and screen off while playing video for phone).

[@Pavanesound]

@@Benn61 O! I haven't tried it...didn't know that.

[@gummygoo2]

I love this painting of Henry, Edward and Jane. Why? Because its not accurate! Jane died when Edward was newly born. So her being in this family portrait when she wasn't even alive, is kind of cute!

[@Millie-fs5ew]

Gummygoo so they sort of added her into the painting for a family portrait?That’s such a sad but sweet notion!

[@theodoravonwied5441]

Actually, such a thing was not uncommon at the time. There is a famous painting of Emperor Maximilian 1st's family from around the same time, and it also shows his deceased wife. This is because these paintings are not meant to be mere "happy family" depictions, but political statements: They represent the dynastic continuity of kingship. So this portrait means: "Here is the King of England, and his wife the Queen, and their legitimately born heir the Prince of Wales. The future of the crown is safe."

[@xr6lad]

It is a homage. Henry always wanted or needed a son to succeed him as King and he loved Jane the most because she gave him the son that two failed marriages hadn't. Henry viewed Jane as his 'truest' wife and the this is why he was also buried with her and not any of the other even later wives. That's why he had this picture painted.

[@m.p.2534]

Or maybe the painter just saw the ghost of Jane behind the two others and told himself "Meh. Why not ?" XD But jokes aside, it's a really sweet gesture to put them all together as a family.

[@yakuzachicharron]

What puzzles me is why they chose to illustrate Elizabethan music with a painting of Elizabeth's father.

[@anibal5284]

milady , vuestra merced, me concede este baile,grant me this dance, llovio pero salio el sol, It rained but the sun came out

[@Ganeshatc51]

Esta noche llovizna y todo está pacífico a mi alrededor. Solo las pavanas de fondo. No hace falta (casi) nada más

[@MedievalRichard]

Splendid. MR

[@suzyhill9544]

Why is the pic of Henry? The Elizabethan era didn't start until Elizabeth ascended the throne. She was only a kid when this portrait was done.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

​@marcinpyt Teen Elizabeth's stepfather also mornings tried to bed romp wake, seduce her as a potential successor to his wife, Henry 8's widow Catherine Parr. This fueled her lifelong distrust of male suitors.

[@darrenhirst9900]

@@JudgeJulieLit So many buildings had secret passages and tracing bloodlines would be interesting don't you think?

[@youtubegame8911]

J’adore très ludique

[@realityslidersmandelaeffec6594]

I have touched the actual real picture you are showing with the music

[@dinnerstein]

Wonderful. It would be helpful to add the names of the composers--if known. I recognized the Ferrabosco pavan as well those by Dowland. Was the Anthony Pavan by Holbourne?

[@Timofeyev63]

Thank you for your nice words! This is a physical CD, put on youtube courtesy of Brilliant Classics. If you buy the real album, you will get much more information that what is known about the composers. In the meantime, Anthony Pavan is attributed by some to Anthony de Countie, but some even claimed Antonio Antonio de Cabezón. In any case, certainly not Holborne ))

[@raw3040]

Good work 😊😊😊❤

[@joycebarber3879]

The picture is of Edward and his mother Jane Seymour, wife #3.

[@davidjohnzenocollins]

One of the commenters asked, "What is a PAVAN?" Well, a pavane is something lovely you do for a dead Princess. Beyond that, I have no idea.

[@alvindimes4729]

David Collins, A Pavan is a medieval dance.

[@orchidsarepretty1422]

@@alvindimes4729 or pavan and pavane the same thing? Just spelled differently

[@sinsemilia70]

it is written in the description, so you could read it, isn’t it?!

[@dennissullivan2954]

A pavan is a lovely slow dance people of all ages could dance to and that Was it's purpose.

[@crcaicedo]

Pavan or pavane or pavana, was a slow, stilysh and refined dance, especially into European courts. But I find music called pavane is not so slow, specially in the epoch that depicts the album. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante difunte, is something different, far more inspired on a romantic idealization of Medieval images and is elegiac and slow and sad than the original dance music, I find it more related to Faure's Pavane 🤔

[@josianeguedes2972]

Boa noiteeeeee gente linda bjsss 😍

[@johnries5593]

"Elizabethan Pavans" is the title, but Henry VIII takes center stage on the album cover?

[@MrJafredderf]

Cause even dead he could kick butt...lol

[@andyjeanmacondo]

That guy was only showing off

[@walt325]

Henry VIII was her father.

[@selfote44]

Yes, it is a contradiction. It's as if this king was still, to this day, the main character of the time. At least for the person or groups of people who designed the cover.

[@michaelepp6212]

People can't seem to get enough of Hank.

[@jude999]

Pavane

[@alanhigh8125]

This would be ideal, playing softly in the background; on a crisp Autumn day; the trees in full colour, surrounded by friends and family round an outdoor hearth, sipping your favorite adult beverage.

[@rebeccajackson4984]

But Elizabeth isn't in the artwork...

[@tomfurgas2844]

Seems odd to have a picture of Henry for music of the Elizabethan period. 🤔

[@EricDickersonGuitar]

Which Manuscript is Kyng Harry the VIIIth Pavyn in?

[@Pavanesound]

Is this available as a CD?

[@BrilliantClassics]

Hi! Check out our website for more information, www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/e/elizabethan-pavans/

[@Pavanesound]

@@BrilliantClassics Thank you I shall.

[@carolsmall992]

Lovely music but strange choice of album cover; isn’t that Henry VIII with his son Edward Vi and wife Jayne Seymour? After Edward VI came Jane, Mary I and Phillip, and then Elizabeth I.

[@youtubegame8911]

Je vous conseille Ludvic

[@jessicastinemusic4066]

23:00

[@michaelletellier218]

The picture would be of himself with his two heirs, Edward and Mary.

[@papagen00]

this is antithesis to today's pop music that's all surface glitter and little substance.

[@petebondurant58]

I often wonder what if...Edward VI had lived a full life.

[@lawrencebrown3677]

I have often wondered about that. In the Midlands there are quite a few Edward VI grammar schools, one of which I am familiar with at Stourbridge. He was committed to the Protestant faith. It is is impossible to speculate rationally about what might have been if he had lived longer, but I am sure that there would have been more schools, perhaps even an Edward VI college at Oxford and/or Cantab.

[@alexandermackay-smith2364]

What if, indeed. What if Arthur had lived, and Henry had never been more than a younger prince, who had to be kept out of trouble? What if both of them had had children, who spent the 16th C plotting against one another? A game of thrones.

[@daxfitzgerald8847]

It sucks? Yes but the thing is they were dancing and having fun. We on the other hand make recordings of contemporary music that has bass and contrast and then we sit at home and listn. No dancing. Sort of sucks.

[@baroqueman1]

Gives a lift up away from material cares.

[@rolancord]

...

[@Anonymousforest]

Well I mean he is the father lol

[@alexandermackay-smith2364]

You kids need to actually listen to the music, not just let it flow over you. The inner structure of polyphony, the way completely distinct lines of music move together to make harmony, is European culture’s unique achievement, what we developed beyond any other world music. The 16th century was the highest peak of this technique, as heard in the massive choral works like Tallis’s Spem in Alium. The lute was the only instrument that let one player keep three, four and even more melodic lines interacting the way a chorus could. Western music since then has degenerated back to a simple melody with a few chords banging away underneath. Easier to write. Fun for the soloist. Doesn’t demand too much from the rest of the band. ’steeth! We used to be better than that. Open up your ears to something real. Good album, though. Some unusual items.

[@alexreik424]

who you?lots of booshee

[@alexandermackay-smith2364]

Oh well. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

[@FrankieParadiso4evah]

Excellent point, but the PC Brigade always ignores the truth...

[@gunnarkaithorsen9831]

"You kids need to actually listen to the music, not just let it flow over you." 1. You seem to imperiously assume that the "kids" here don't "think". 2. Sorry, but the Elizabethans, whose music this was, DID "just let it flow over" them, and there's nothing shallow about that. With the exception of certain Elizabethan composers, they didn't analyze their music, they LIVED it, were one with it, be it the music of court, the Church, the street, a tavern, or a harvest festival. An intellectual dissection of music is well and good, but you seem to be totally involved in the "intellectual" at the expense of the human condition and experience. Just as we do today, Elizabethans of all classes responded to music of all kinds, with joy or other emotions, by humming, singing, laughing, weeping, dancing, courting, flirting, tapping their toes, clapping their hands, pondering, praying, etc. Music for them was experienced in the here and now, but it also had a social dimension and connected them to their families, friends, and ancestors. You can study and dissect music until you are blue in the face, but at the end of the day, an uneducated person who nevertheless "feels", can experience music the same as you do, or even more fully than you do in some sense, because they become one with it via heart and soul, and it is those two things after all which intellect - and music - rightly serve.

[@inco9943]

@@FrankieParadiso4evah why always a need for you type of people to drag in the fictional enemy of the 'PC brigade'....

[@BlackHermit]

This music is good, but in a way it sucks! I can't explain it, sorry.

[@steveegallo3384]

No problem! Let me add only that there is nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo-mallet wouldn't cure....

[@Gaul1748]

Black Hermit: It is understandable. This is from another world and another time. It would be like King Henry VIII coming to our century and trying to understand Rap or Rock N' Roll. These people did not live in the fast life like we do. No television, no cell phones, no radio, no recordings. Cool.

[@steveegallo3384]

Objection, Your Honor! Inference that BlackHermit is not "Cool" is hearsay, rumor....not dispositive

[@johna6767]

@Black Hermit: I was actually thinking something similar. This music is very pretty, but it's also ... I dunno ... boring? It has no drama to it, it doesn't really do anything or go anywhere, it's just kinda ... *there*. Like Gregorian Chant for the lute. But that's OK, sometimes you just want pretty background music.

[@MrPuros]

@@Gaul1748 I think some heads of those 'nowaday people' would be seen on the Tower

[@gillianrobb3223]

Yes , these several compilations of early music are most appealing but the times and the images provided don't always match...a small matter though , with such excellent music to make amends