Composer: John Amner, William Byrd, Giulio Caccini, Thomas Campion, John Dowland, James Harding, Thomas Morley, Martin Peerson, William Tisdale, John Tomkins
Performer: Giulia Nuti
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A532
Release: 2022
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Prelude
02. Dowland: A Pavion Solus cum sola
03. Dowland: Frog Galliard
04. Peerson: The Primerose (P VI / 4)
05. Tomkins: John Come Kiss Me Now
06. Dowland: Captaine Pipers Pavin
07. Dowland: If my complaints could passions move
08. Peerson: The Fall of the Leafe
09. Byrd: The Bells
10. Dowland: Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)
11. Tisdale: Almand
12. Tisdale: Coranto
13. Amner: O Lord in thee is all my trust
14. Campion: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee?
15. Morley: Passamezzo: Pavan
16. Caccini: Amarilli mia bella
17. anon.: In Sorrows Drown’d
18. Dowland: Lachrymae: Pavan
19. Harding: Galliard in D minor
Celebrating the golden age of English keyboard music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this personal anthology features works by the greatest composers of the time. John Dowland’s beguiling Pavanes and Galliards, transcribed by Martin Peerson and William Byrd, are punctuated by John Tomkins’ dazzling song-variations, Thomas Morley and William Tisdall’s whirling dances, and ravishing madrigals set by Peter Philips and others. John Amner’s masterful O Lord, in Thee is all my trust contrasts with William Byrd’s evocative, chiming variations The Bells, showcasing the different styles of these composers.
This recording extends Giulia Nuti’s oeuvre of critically acclaimed recordings on historical harpsichords; her solo recital “Le Cœur et l’oreille” (Arcana, 2017), recorded on the harpsichord built by Louis Denis in 1658, was awarded the “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik”. In this recording Giulia plays an exquisite Italian virginal from c. 1575.