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| Performer | Gustav Leonhardt | |
| Label | Philips 438 153 | |
| Playing time | 60' | |
| Recording date | October 1992 | |
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| Composer | Title | Instruments |
| Byrd | Pavan Tregian & Galliard | Harpsichord |
| My Lady Nevell's Ground | ||
| Johnson | Alman | |
| Philips | Passamezzo Pavana & Galiarda | |
| Morley | Fantasia Bull | |
| Bull | Duchess of Brunswick's Toy | Virginal |
| Duke of Brunswick's Alman | ||
| John Lumley's Pavan & Galliard | Harpsichord | |
| Fantasia | ||
| Randall | Galliard "Can she excuse my wrongs?" | |
| Farnaby | A Toye Gibbons | |
| Fantasia | ||
| Gibbons | Fantasia | |
| Fantasia | ||
| Tomkins | Pavan & Galliard of 3 parts | |
| Instruments: Harpsichord, Joel Katzman (1987); Virginal, Martin Skowroneck (1967) - tracks 6,7 | ||
As always, Leonhardt's performances are definitive in some sense. Although it might seem that the Philips label for this recording would make it easy to obtain, I have not found that to be entirely the case. Nonetheless, it is an important recording, featuring a good representative selection of music in this style.
This music is rather singular. The depth of an entire genre developed and produced over only a few of decades is amazing. Unfortunately, it is equally shocking that the entire school died out completely by the middle of the 17th century.
It was Byrd who presided over this era, and so it was he who was the first great master of the "English Virginalist" school of keyboard composition. He managed to establish this genre out of almost nothing.
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Colin Tilney | Dorian 90195 |
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Gary Cooper | Dervorguilla 106 |
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Sophie Yates | Chandos Chaconne 0574 |
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Edward | Wild Boar 9102 |
| Parmentier | ||
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Joseph Payne | Bis 539 |
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Byron Schenkman | Centaur 2638 |
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James Johnstone | AS&V "Gaudeamus" 191 |
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Pierre Hantaï | Astrée 8543 |