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Dmytro Kokoshynskyy (harpsichord)

Music For These Troubled Times
The paradox of this disc is that, though devoted to melancholy, much of the music speaks of innocence and joy; perhaps it expresses a still small hope for the future.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20264 out of 5 stars

Special offer. Music For These Troubled Times

Dmytro Kokoshynskyy (harpsichord)

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The paradox of this disc is that, though devoted to melancholy, much of the music speaks of innocence and joy; perhaps it expresses a still small hope for the future.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20264 out of 5 stars

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Music for These Troubled Times explores the melancholy of the past through the keyboard repertoire of the English virginalists of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and links this still familiar state of mind with the present - an age of social and political turbulence, uncertainty, and wars - through Maxim Shalygin's KHORA. Inspired by Robert Burton's 1621 treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy, which praises music as a remedy for the troubled mind, the programme moves between contemplative pavanes, witty variations, and complex polyphonic works. It includes rarely performed pieces and a first recording of the anonymous A Ground.

Recorded on three unique harpsichords, it features a rare copy after 1579 L. Theewes' earliest surviving English instrument, a reconstruction of the original state of the 1612 I. Ruckers transposing double-manual harpsichord and a copy of the marvellous 1751 H. Hemsch.

Contents and tracklist

Bull, J: Lord Lumley‘s Pavan, MB 129a
Work length5:14
Bull, J: Lord Lumley‘s Galliard, MB 129b
Work length2:02
anon.: Wakefield on a Green, MB 56
Work length2:54
Tallis: Felix Namque (I), MB 4
Work length9:17
Peerson: The Fall of the Leaf, MB 81
Work length2:04
Bull, J: In Nomine (XII), MB 31
Work length3:05
Bull, J: Why Ask You? (I), Mb 62
Work length3:14
Gibbons, O: The Woods so Wild, MB 29
Work length4:34
Bull, J: In Nomine (IX), MB 28
Work length6:01
Byrd: Fantasia MB46
Work length5:08
Byrd: John come kiss me now
Work length6:02
Gibbons, O: Pavan MB16
Work length4:12
anon.: A Ground, MB 57
Work length9:03
Byrd: Fifth Pavan (From My Lady Nevells Book), MB 31a
Work length4:30
Byrd: Fifth Galliard (From My Lady Nevells Book), MB 31b
Work length1:23
Shalygin: KHORA
Work length8:46
Dowland: Can She Excuse?, MB 28 (Arr. for Harpsichord by Anonymous)
Work length1:35

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July 2026

The paradox of this disc is that, though devoted to melancholy, much of the music speaks of innocence and joy; perhaps it expresses a still small hope for the future.
4 out of 5 stars
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