TALLIS, BYRD, GIBBONS
OehmsClassics, 2023
«This is an altogether delightful recording, with an outstanding exponent of early English keyboard music performing a well-chosen selection of works by three composers whose individual pieces always provide edification and pleasure. (…) There are fine performances on the 1699 Neapolitan harpsichord of masterpieces such as the Third Pavan and Galliard, Walsingham and Fortune. Finest of all, and indeed the finest of any commercially recorded version of the work, is O mistress mine – one of Byrd’s gems that should be heard much more often, given here in a performance of perfection encapsulated in the balance and delicacy of the concluding cadence.»
«Músicas un tanto abstrusas y de mucha exigencia para el oyente, se hacen asequibles gracias a la altísima calidad interpretativa de Friederike Chylek, que queda demostrada por su sobresaliente técnica, por la acertada elección de los tempi y por sus impecables versiones, que rezuman una profunda sensibilidad expresada con ligereza.»
William byrd: keyboard music
OehmsClassics, 2022
«Among discs devoted to Byrd’s keyboard music, this current recording is among the very finest. (…) it provides ideal listening: stimulating to the intellect, and delightful for recreation.»
«In every one of Chylek’s interpretations, I hear an uncommonly sober balance of emotional expressiveness with technical clarity, and through this disk I am reminded once more why I have had this lifelong relationship with Byrd. In this music there is a voice which fully knows the complex tapestry of life’s joys, sorrows and uncertainties; yet it urges us to never stop moving forward.»
From Byrd to Byrd
OehmsClassics, 2019
«I cannot recommend this disc too highly. Anyone familiar with some or all of these works will find them interpreted in so many new lights. It is also an ideal disc for someone setting out to discover early English keyboard music – a wonderful repertory complimented by this wonderful disc.»
Time stands still
„The performances by harpsichordist Friederike Chylek are delightfully elegant and sensitive. Her mastery of tempo flexibility and agogic nuance allows the music to breathe without compromising steadiness of meter. (…) Listeners who admire this repertory will not go wrong with this recording.“
Italians in London!
Simon Standage, violin
Friederike Chylek, harpsichord