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Albertus Bryne - Keyboard Music

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Label: Deux Elles

Cat No: DXL1124

Barcode: 0666283112429

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 10th June 2007

Artists

Terence Charlston (harpsichord, Organ, Spinet)

Artists

Terence Charlston (harpsichord, Organ, Spinet)

About

Terence Charlston, keyboard player with the well known London Baroque, plays the works of English organist and composer, Albertus Bryne.

Albertus Bryne was the leading composer of harpsichord music before Locke and one of the earliest English composers to organise his dances into suites by key. With the exception of music specifically for the organ, the majority of Bryne’s pieces would have been played on any keyboard instrument which the player had to hand, be it harpsichord, organ or clavichord. Here, Terence Charlston performs on the organ, single manual harpsichord and spinet to give an authentic and insightful performance of Bryne’s works.

To place Bryne’s music in context, this disc also includes Bull’s famous G major Prelude and two anonymous pieces from an early Bryne source. Bull’s prelude is one of the most widely disseminated pieces in the repertoire. The CD concludes with three voluntaries or verses by Christopher Gibbons, second son of the legendary Orlando Gibbons, which Bryne may well have heard his predecessor play at Westminster Abbey. They are typical of Restoration organ music for a single organ (i.e. to be played on one keyboard) and are close in style to Bryne’s own voluntary.

Tracklisting:

1 Toletole

Suite in A minor
2 Ayre
3 Corant
4 Saraband
5 Ayre
6 Saraband

Suite in F major
7 The Kings Ayre
8 Corant with doubles
9 Saraband

Suite in D minor
10 Almain
11 Corant
12 Saraband
13 Jigg Allmaine

Suite in D major
14 Almain
15 Corant
16 Saraband
17 Jigg Allmaine

Suite in A minor
18 Almain
19 Corant
20 Saraband
21 Jigg Allmaine
22 A ground to ye organ or harpsichord

Suite in D major
23 Allmaine
24 Coranto
25 Saraband & improvised Jig-Almain

Suite in D minor
26 Allmaine
27 Corant
28 Saraband
29 Saraband
30 Voluntary in A minor

Suite in D major
31 Almand in D#
32 Corant
33 Saraband

34 Towle Towle (Anon)

35 Preludium (John Bull)

36 An Alman (Anon)

37 The Earle of Oxfordes Gallene (Anon)

38 Totetole

39 A ground to ye organ or harpsichord

Christopher Gibbons Three voluntaries for the single organ
40 in A
41 Verse for ye single organ in D
42 Verse in F