Special offer. The Fall of the Leaf
English Keyboard Music on the Rucellai Virginal
Giulia Nuti (early keyboard instruments)
Even in the sometimes twisting inner voices, she makes each and every note, chord, and phrase stand out so that we have a fine sense of the complexity of these arrangements. Clarity and a fine...
Special offer. The Fall of the Leaf
English Keyboard Music on the Rucellai Virginal
Giulia Nuti (early keyboard instruments)
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Even in the sometimes twisting inner voices, she makes each and every note, chord, and phrase stand out so that we have a fine sense of the complexity of these arrangements. Clarity and a fine...
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Celebrating the golden age of English keyboard music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this personal anthology features works by the greatest composers of the time. John Dowland’s beguiling Pavanes and Galliards, transcribed by Martin Peerson and William Byrd, are punctuated by John Tomkins’s dazzling song-variations, Thomas Morley and William Tisdall’s whirling dances, and ravishing madrigals set by Peter Philips and others. John Amner’s masterful O Lord, in Thee is all my trust contrasts with William Byrd’s evocative, chiming variations The Bells, showcasing the different styles of these composers.
This recording extends Giulia Nuti’s oeuvre of critically acclaimed recordings on historical harpsichords; her solo recital Le Coeur et l’oreille: Manuscript Bauyn (Arcana, 2017), recorded on the harpsichord built by Louis Denis in 1658, was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In this recording Giulia plays an exquisite Italian virginal from c. 1575.
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Mar/Apr 2023
Even in the sometimes twisting inner voices, she makes each and every note, chord, and phrase stand out so that we have a fine sense of the complexity of these arrangements. Clarity and a fine sense of the musical content mark this as one excellent disc…well recommended.
