Tomkins: Keyboard music, vol. 2

Tomkins: Keyboard Music (Complete, Vol. 2)
Bernhard Klapprott
MD+G 607 0704

Contents:

  1. Prelude (MS Paris 1122, pp. 110-1)
  2. Fancy (MS Christ Church 1113, pp. 135-6)
  3. In Nomine I (MS Paris 1122, pp. 148-50; August 2, 1650)
  4. In Nomine II (MS Paris 1122, pp. 158-60; February 14, 1650)
  5. In Nomine (MS Paris 1122, pp. 115-8; May 1648)
  6. Voluntary (MS Drexel 5611, pp. 92-3)
  7. Pavan (MS Paris 1122, pp. 128-9 & 134-5; April 1650)
  8. Galliard (MS Paris 1122, pp. 152-3; October 1, 1650)
  9. Fancy for viols (MS Paris 1122, pp. 24-7)
  10. Toy - Made at Poole Court (MS Paris 1122, p. 141)
  11. Pavan (MS Paris 1122, p. 135; August 20, 1650)
  12. Robin Hood (MS Forster ff. 216v-222)
  13. Pavan (MS Paris 1122, pp. 97 & 100-1; September 10, 1647)
  14. Pavan (MS Paris 1122, pp. 102-3; September 14, 1647)
  15. Ground (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, pp. 239-41)

Playing time: 72'

Recording date: October & November 1995

Instruments: harpsichord (tracks 1-5, 7-9, 12-15), Cornelius Bom (after Giovanni Battista Giusti, c.1650); virginal (tracks 6, 10, 11), Klaus Ahrend (after Marten van der Biest, c. 1580) - meantone tuning, Ibo Ortgies

This volume includes precise manuscript specifications for the pieces, given in parentheses above, plus dates of composition when given by Tomkins.

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Todd M. McComb