Composer: John Bull, William Byrd, John Dowland, Giles Farnaby, Richard Farnaby, Orlando Gibbons, William Inglott, Thomas Tomkins
Performer: Mahan Esfahani
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68249
Release: 2018
Size: 2.88 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tomkins: Barafostus’ Dream
02. Dowland; Anonymous – Baroque: Can she excuse my wrongs?
03. Gibbons: Mr. Gibbons Ground
04. Gibbons: Ground The woods so wild MB29
05. Farnaby G: Fantasia
Byrd: The nynth pavian and galliarde, the Passinge mesures BK2
06. I. Pavian
07. II. Galliarde
08. Farnaby R: Nobodye’s Gigge
Bull: Chromatic (Queen Elisabeth’s) Pavan and Galliard
09. I. Pavan
10. II. Galliard
11. Byrd: Ut re mi fa sol la
12. anon.: The Scottish gigg
13. Tomkins: Pavan
14. Farnaby G: Woody-cock
15. Farnaby G: Tell Me, Daphne
16. Farnaby G: Why Ask You
17. Bull: Fantasia ‘Mr Dr Bull’
18. Inglot: The leaves bee greene
19. anon.: Variations on the Romanesca
This sensational recital—featuring some of the greatest keyboard music to emerge from these islands—is the perfect vehicle for Mahan Esfahani’s abundant talents. His accompanying booklet notes are an added bonus, guaranteed to inform, illuminate and provoke by turns.
Performed for the most part on a double-manual harpsichord made by Robert Goble & Son, Oxford (1990), kindly loaned by Bob Robertson and based on an instrument made by Carl Conrad Fleischer, Hamburg (1710); tracks 12, 15, 18 & 19 performed on virginals made by Huw Saunders, London (1989), kindly loaned by Huw Saunders and a copy of an instrument made by Thomas White, Old Jewry, London (1642). The temperament used for the recording was quarter-comma meantone, a’=408Hz.