Philips: Keyboard music

Keyboard Music by Peter Philips

Paul Nicholson (harpsichord, virginal)
Hyperion 66734 (The English Orpheus, Vol. 25)

Contents:

1. Chi fara fed'al cielo
2. Pavan (1580)
3. Galliard
4. Tirsi morir volea
5. Freno Tirsi il desio
6. Così morirò
7. Aria del Gran Duca
8. Pavan Pagget
9. Galliard Pagget
10. Veni Sancte Spiritus
11. Fece da voi partita
12. Pavan Dolorosa Tregian
13. Galliard Tregian
14. Bon jour mon cueur
15. Almande Tregian
16. Passamezzo Pavan
17. Galliard Passamezzo
18. Fantasia in G

Playing time: 71'

Recording date: December 1993

Instruments: Italian harpsichord, Ransom / Hammett (after Grimaldi, c.1700); Virginals, Brant O'Brien (after Ruckers 1598)

Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was one of the finest English composers of the era, in all the genres of the time. He spent most of his career on the Continent for religious reasons. This performance includes all of Philips' most famous pieces (the Pavan & Galliard pairs and the Fantasia) as well as many of the song & motet settings.

Other recordings of Philips' keyboard music:

Philips: Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 1

Siegbert Rampe
MD+G 341 1257

Philips: Harpsichord Music

Anneke Uittenbosch
Etcetera 45609

Philips: Harpsichord Works

Elizabeth Farr
Naxos 8.557864

A recording devoted to consort music (mostly arrangements of these keyboard compositions):

Consort Music by Peter Philips

The Parley of Instruments - Peter Holman
Hyperion 66240 (English Orpheus, Vol. 24)

A recording of choral music:

Philips: Paradisus Sacris Cantionibus

Currende Vocal Ensemble - Erik Van Nevel
Accent 8862

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