An educational programme featuring early music. Looking forward to the Early Music Festival, which starts on August 28.
This year’s Festival theme is Engeland. We focus our attention on one of the sub-themes: the English virginalists.
Read more about this sub-theme on the website of the organisation of the Early Music Festival.
Giles Farnaby (1563 – 1640):
1. Fantasia MB no 12
2. Fantasia MB no 10
3. Fantasia MB no 6
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
(Universal Music B.V. 00028947605720, Accord 476 057-2, 2004)
Peter Phillips (1560 – 1628)
4. Amarilli mia bella
5. Chi farà fede al cielo
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
(Brilliant 94449, 2014)
Martin Peerson (1572 – 1650 or 1651)
6. Primerose
7. The fall of the leafe
William Byrd (1540 – 1623)
8. La Volta
Marco Vitale, original Ruckers-spinet/virginal (built in 1604) by Giuseppe Accardi
(Ayros AY-RA 01)
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695)
9. Fantasia a 4 no 5, Z736, in B flat major
10. Fantasia a 4 no 6, Z737, in F major
11. Fantasia a 4 no 9, Z740, in A minor
Les Voix Humaines
(ATMA ACD2 2591, 2009)
Ferdinando Richardson (1558 – 1618)
12. Pavane and variation in D minor
13. Galliard and variation in D minor
Glen Wilson, harpsichord
(Naxos 8.572997, 2014)
William Inglot (1554–1621)
14. The Leaves Bee Greene
John Munday (1555 – 1630)
15. Goe from my window
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
(Brilliant 94303, 2012)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621)
16. Ut re mi fa sol la, a 4
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
(Brilliant 94449, 2014)
Pictured: A virginal “à la quinte”, made in 1583 by Hans Ruckers from Antwerp. From the collection of the Musée de la Musique, Paris.
