Anthony Holborne
Anthony Holborne (c. 1545–1602) was an English composer of music for lute, cittern and instrumental consort in the reign of Elizabeth I. His printed collections remain among the richest surviving sources of short Elizabethan consort and plucked-string pieces.
He is best known for the cittern book The Cittarn Schoole (1597) and for Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs (1599), a set of sixty-five five-part pieces for viols, violins or wind—the largest collection of its kind to survive. Most of the 1599 works are pavan–galliard pairs; others are allemandes or freestanding airs.
On Move he appears as composer: lute pieces including Walsingham, Jest and As it fell on a Holly Eve on Rosemary Hodgson’s Walsingham (MCD 637), and the lute-and-gamba air The Night Watch on What if a Day or a Month or a Year (MD 3151).
Compositions by Anthony Holborne appear on
What if a Day or a Month or a Year
Elizabethan lute songs and Ayres sung by Gerald English, a founding member of the Deller Consort, with Jonathan Rubin on lute and Sharyn Wicks on gamba.
Walsingham
Renowned Australian lutenist Rosemary Hodgson’s Walsingham gathers Elizabethan lute variations on a sacred ballad into a contemplative Marian rondo of mysticism and pilgrimage.