Gustav Leonhardt - Fantasias, Pavans & Galliards: Music by Bull, Byrd & Gibbons (1993)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 434 Mb | Total time: 59:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | 438 153-2 | Recorded: 1992
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 434 Mb | Total time: 59:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | 438 153-2 | Recorded: 1992
This disc takes us on a whistle-stop tour of English keyboard music in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The fantasy, pavan and galliard were among the most popular forms of their day. The latter two dance movements were often paired together, and sometimes linked thematically. The pavan, wrote Thomas Morley, was ‘a kind of staide musicke, ordained for grave dauncing’, while the briefer galliard serviced ‘a lighter and more stirring kinde of dauncing’. The most attractive examples here are Bull’s charming John Lumley’s Pavan and Galliard and Byrd’s Pavan ‘Ph. Tregian’ & Galliard, its regal pavan among the disc’s high spots.