EARL OF SALISBURY, THE
Created on 11/02/2016Latest update on 01/04/2022
Artist: William Byrd
Author: William Byrd
Year: 1612
Pavane from the Parthenia, a collection of keyboard pieces written for the marriage of the daughter of king James I. This one was specifically written in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury who'd died in May 1612.
Covers:
- 1930:
Rudolph Dolmetsch [on virginal, possibly the oldest recording, for Columbia]
- 1937:
Leopold Stokowski [with the Philadelphia Orchestra]
- 1937:
Arnold Dolmetsch [on clavichord]
- 1942:
- 1964:
- 1968:
Pentangle [live and in medley with Brentzel Gay and La Rotta]
- 1968:
- 1968:
Soft Machine [in- and outro of A Certain Kind from Soft Machine 1; vocal: Robert Wyatt; that link is still missing on an earlier version of A Certain Kind (It's What I Feel) by The Wilde Flowers ('65), also with Hugh Hopper & Robert Wyatt]
- 1988:
- 2008:
Steve Hackett [ex Genesis]
