Elizabethan keyboard

The Queenes Command

Masterpieces of Elizabethan Keyboard Music
Joseph Payne
BIS 539

Contents:

1. Gibbons: The Queenes Command
2. Gibbons: Mask - The Fairest Nymph
3. Gibbons: Mask - Lincoln's Inn
4. Gibbons: Fantasia (tone 2 transposed)
5. Gibbons: The Wood so wilde
6. Gibbons: Pavan
7. Gibbons: Galliard Lady Hatton
8. Bull: Prelude
9. Bull: Lord Lumley's Pavan
10. Bull: Lord Lumley's Galliard
11. Bull: Coranto Joyeuse
12. Bull: The King's Hunt
13. Bull: In Nomine IX
14. Tisdale: Almand
15. Tisdale: Pavana Chromatica
16. Farnaby: Woody-cock
17. Dowland / Byrd: Pavana Lachrymae
18. Byrd: The Queen's Alman
19. Byrd: Lord Willobies welcome home
20. Byrd: Pavana Bray
21. Byrd: Galiarda Bray
22. Byrd: Wolsey's Wilde
23. Byrd: The Carman's Whistle

Playing time: 74'

Recording date: May & August 1991

Instruments: Harpsichord, Spindler (1991, after Ruckers 1637); Virginal, Way (1991, after Boni c.1550); Harpsichord, Way (1983, after Bononiensis 1521)

This is a selection of some of the main pieces of the repertory, centering on the three greatest composers of this music: Byrd, Bull & Gibbons.

A recording by Payne devoted to John Bull:

Bull: Pavans & Galliards

Joseph Payne
BIS 729

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