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Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 15 Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me by The King's Singers album cover

Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 15 Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me

by The King's Singers

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About "Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 15 Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me" by The King's Singers

Wilbye sets spite to harmony, and the effect is exquisite poison. Lady, your words do spite me—yet the King's Singers wrap the rebuke in velvet polyphony. The tension is courtly and cutting: a lover's complaint dressed in madrigal finery, each dissonance a barbed compliment, each resolution a wound dressed.