CD1
GILES FARNABY
Fantasia
The Flatt Pavan
ANON.
Can shee
Alman – The Irishe Dumpe – Watkins Ale
WILLIAM BYRD
A Gigg
WILLIAM INGLOTT
The Leaves bee greene
PETER PHILIPS
Amarilli di Julio Romano
Galiarda Passamezzo
MARTIN PEERSON
Alman – The Primerose – The Fall of the Leafe
GILES FARNABY
Tower Hill – A Masque – A Toye
Pavana
Galliardo
WILLIAM MUNDY
Robin
ANON.
Nowel’s Galliard
GILES FARNABY
Giles Farnaby’s Dreame – His Rest – Farnabye’s Conceit – His Humour
CD 2
WILLIAM BYRD
John come kisse me now
The Queenes Alman
JOHN BULL
In nomine
Fantasia
PETER PHILIPS
Pavana and Galiarda ‘Pagget’
WILLIAM BYRD
Pavana and Galiarda ‘Delight’
La Volta – Alman – Wolseys Wilde – Callino Casturame – La Volta
WILLIAM TISDALE
Pavana ‘Clement Cotton’
GILES FARNABY
Loth to Depart
Christopher Hogwood, virginal, organ, harpsichord, spinet
Recording Producer: Peter Wadland
Balance Engineers: John Dunkerley, John Pellowe
Recording Locations: Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, UK, 29 April 1981 (organ), Ham House, Petersham, Surrey, UK, 7–9 May 1981 (virginal, spinet), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, 11–12 May 1981 (harpsichord)
‘The present performances, in a recording of exemplary fidelity and clarity, are shapely and always alive. Hogwood can preserve a long line where needed, or infuse an infectious springiness into dance tunes like ‘Watkin’s ale’. Decorative passages are fluently played.’ Gramophone