"No, that’s not the Ronald Binge Elizabethan
Serenade but some of Julian Bream’s ground-breaking recordings on solo
lute and with his eponymous consort. Styles change and neither the solo
nor the consort music would be thought authentic now, but Bream’s
recordings from this period remain enjoyable and interesting. Like all
his output, they have remained only fitfully available on CD, so I’m
pleased to have snapped most of them up when they were available in the
RCA Julian Bream Edition.
Even the multi-CD box set has gone, so the Beulah release is very
welcome.
"Where the Beulah selection scores over all these is
in presenting the lute music alongside the consort music, alternating
on the first 15 tracks, with the rest devoted to Bream alone.On the
other tracks, some of the consort pieces such as Can she excuse my
wrongs?are made to sound almost like jazz."
Brian Wilson at Musicweb
International
