Description
Track Listing:
Disc 1
Played on the single-manual harpsichord (1979) after Andreas Ruckers, 1640
Anonymous
1 Passamezzo Pavan (Tisdale’s Virginal Book–TVB)
2 Passamezzo Galliard (TVB)
William Randall
3 Johnson’s Medley (TVB)
4 Dowland’s Lachrymae (TVB)
5 Galliard: Can she excuse? (TVB)
William Byrd
6 La Volta (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book–FWVB)
John Bull
7 In nomine XII (Musica Britannica–MB 31)
Anonymous
8 Chi passa (Dublin Virginal Book–DVB)
Peter Philips
9 Amarilli di Julio Romano (FWVB)
William Byrd
10 The Third Pavane (My Lady Nevell’s Book–Nevell)
11 The Third Galliard (Nevell)
12 Tregian’s Pavane (MB 60a)
13 Tregian’s Galliard (MB 60b)
Anonymous
14 Variations on the Romanesca (DVB)
15 My Lady Carey’s Dompe (Royal. App. 58)
Disc 2
Played on the double-manual harpsichord (1978) after Ioannes Ruckers, 1642
Orlando Gibbons
1 Pavan in g (MB 16)
John Bull
2 Dr. Bull’s My Selfe (FWVB)
Orlando Gibbons
3 Pavan in a (MB 17)
John Bull
4 Vaulting Galliard (MB 90)
William Byrd
5 Pavan in d (MB 52a)
6 Gallliard in d (MB 52b)
Orlando Gibbons
7 The Italian Ground (MB 27)
John Munday
8 Robin (FWVB)
Anonymous
9 Pavana (Mall sims, FWVB XVI)
William Byrd
10 Lord Willobies Welcome Home (Nevell, MB 7)
William Tisdale
11 Mrs. Katherin Tregian’s Paven (FWVB)
William Byrd
12 The Tenth Pavian: Mr. W. Peter (Nevell, MB 3a)
13 Galliard (Nevell, MB 3b)
Tudor and Jacobean Keyboard Music
Peter Watchorn, Harpsichord
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Available: Now
Recorded: June 1998 & Feb. 2001
Booklet: 20-page, full color. Comprehensive program notes by scholar Howard Schott.
Features:
• Well balanced anthology of unique and under-recorded repertoire.
• Four pieces receive their recording premiere.
• Two of the finest modern copies of original harpsichords by legendary American maker, Walter Burr.
• Superb recording, production and packaging.
• Beyond the Notes™ (website) and booklet notes by leading world authority, Dr. Howard Schott.
