Nathaniel Pattrick’s “Send forth thy sighs”
Throughout September, the Daily Classical Music Post celebrates the music of 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century England. https://youtu.be/UCu3uShAVYs Very little is known about Nathaniel Pattrick (?1569–1595) other than he was Organist of Worcester Cathedral and Master of the Children at Worcester Cathedral from 1590 to 1595. He apparently composed a good number of choral works, sacred and secular, but very little is extant. In 1597 he published his "Songs of Sundrye Natures, whereof some are Divine, some are madrigalles and the rest psalms and hymns in Latin, by Nathaniel Patrick, sometyme Master of the Children of the Cathedral Church of Worcester and organist of the same." This is now lost, but we do have a few consort songs that he may have arranged from these madrigals. John Bryan says that during the early part of Elizabeth I’s reign, “[c]onsort songs for solo voice and viols were particularly esteemed, since their rich polyphonic fabric shared musical interest between all ...