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English Harpsichord Works | Music and Media  MMC112

English Harpsichord Works

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Label: Music and Media

Cat No: MMC112

Barcode: 5065001668128

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th April 2016

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About

Since Parthenia (1612/13), ‘the first musicke that ever was printed for the virginalls’, as its own title-page declares, devotees had ready access to high-quality English harpsichord music. A steady stream of publications followed as the century progressed. Later, volumes dedicated to single composers appeared of which the earliest were the Choice Collection[s] by Purcell (1696) and Blow (1698). Aside from miscellaneous pieces, often arrangements of ‘ayres’ and ‘theatre tunes’, the Suite was the principal form, with its standard sequence of alman, coranto and saraband, often introduced by a prelude. David Pollock’s aim with this CD is to offer a personal anthology of English harpsichord music, perhaps imagining himself as a contemporary of William Croft reviewing the previous one-hundred-and-fifty years. David Pollock plays a double-manual harpsichord by Anne and Ian Tucker, Mistley, Essex, 1999, which is a copy of Andreas Ruckers (single-manual, 1636).

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