Violin Band

Four and Twenty Fiddlers

Music for the Restoration Court Band
The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Band - Peter Holman
Hyperion 66667 (English Orpheus, Vol. 19)

Contents:

1. Locke: Curtain Tune in C major

Locke & Robert Smith: Incidental music for The Tempest

2. Introduction
3. Galliard
4. Gavot
5. Saraband
6. Lilk
7. Curtain Tune
8. Rustick Air
9. Minoit
10. Corant
11. A Martial Jigge
12. A Canon 4 in 2

Locke: Suite of Brawles in B flat

13. First Brawl
14. Second Brawl
15. Leading Brawl
16. Gavott
17. Corant
18. Saraband
19. Conclusion

Locke: Suite in G minor

20. Alman
21. Corant
22. Firk
23. Alman
24. Corant
25. Firk
26. Locke: Curtain Tune in D major

John Banister: The Musick att the Bath

27. Ayre
28. Corant
29. Ayre
30. Ayre
31. Bourree
32. Jig
33. Air
34. Hornpipe
35. Saraband
36. Air
37. Air
38. Jig

Louis Grabau: Incidental Music for Valentinian

39. Air pour les haubois
40. Air pour les flutes
41. Prelude
42. Air pour Jupiter
43. Air pour les suivans de Jupiter
44. Air pour les songes affreux
45. Air pour les satires
46. Menuet
47. Grabau: Concert of Venus from "Albion and Albanius"
48. Purcell: The Staircase Overture in B flat
49. Purcell: Chacony in G minor, Z730

Playing time: 69'

Recording date: May 1993

The present ensemble's next recording of this repertory:

A High-priz'd Noise

Music for Charles I's Violin Band
The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Band - Peter Holman
Hyperion 66806 (English Orpheus, Vol. 36)

And a similar release:

Musique of Violenze

Dances, Fantasias and Popular Tunes for Queen Elizabeth's Violin Band
The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Consort - Peter Holman
Hyperion 66929

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