Hyperion Records | Four & Twenty Fiddlers

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CDA66667
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Recording details: May 1993
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: November 1993
Total duration: 69 minutes 2 seconds

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'A marvellous introduction to the instrumental world in which Purcell grew up' (Early Music Review)

'It is fascinating to hear for the first time music by Banister and Grabu and Purcell's recently-discovered Staircase Overture' (Gramophone)

'Forced to be restricted to one disc that conveys the essence of the period, this would be it. A must' (American Record Guide)

The English Orpheus

Four & Twenty Fiddlers

The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Band, Peter Holman (conductor)

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1		Curtain Tune in C major [3'44] Matthew Locke (c1621-1677)
		Incidental music for Thomas Shadwell's operatic version of Shakespeare's play The Tempest Matthew Locke (c1621-1677) & Robert Smith (c1648-1675)
2		Movement 01: The First Musick. Introduction [1'00]
3		Movement 02: The First Musick. Galliard [1'28]
4		Movement 03: The First Musick. Gavot [1'00]
5		Movement 04: The Second Musick. Saraband [1'52]
6		Movement 05: The Second Musick. Lilk [0'54]
7		Movement 06: The Second Musick. Curtain Tune [3'10]
8		Movement 07: The Second Musick. The First Act Tune 'Rustick Air' [1'15]
9		Movement 08: The Second Musick. The Second Act Tune 'Minoit' [0'46]
10		Movement 09: The Second Musick. The Third Act Tune 'Corant' [1'14]
11		Movement 10: The Second Musick. The Fourth Act Tune 'A Martial Jigge' [1'24]
12		Movement 11: The Second Musick. The Conclusion 'A Canon 4 in 2' [2'49]
		Suite of Brawls in B flat Matthew Locke (c1621-1677)
13		No 1: First Brawl [2'43]
14		No 2: Second Brawl [0'31]
15		No 3: Leading Brawl [0'48]
16		No 4: Gavotte [1'03]
17		No 5: Corant [1'17]
18		No 6: Saraband [0'28]
19		No 7: Conclusion [0'21]
		Suite in G minor Matthew Locke (c1621-1677)
20		Movement 1: Alman [2'08]
21		Movement 2: Corant [0'55]
22		Movement 3: Firk [0'39]
23		Movement 4: Alman [2'22]
24		Movement 5: Corant [1'04]
25		Movement 6: Firk [0'38]
26		Curtain Tune in D major [2'50] Matthew Locke (c1621-1677)
		The Musick att the Bath John Banister (c1625-1679)
27		Movement 01: Ayre [2'33]
28		Movement 02: Corant [0'50]
29		Movement 03: Ayre [0'46]
30		Movement 04: Ayre [0'51]
31		Movement 05: Bourree [0'27]
32		Movement 06: Jig [0'41]
33		Movement 07: Air [0'34]
34		Movement 08: Hornpipe [0'43]
35		Movement 09: Sarabande [0'40]
36		Movement 10: Air [0'26]
37		Movement 11: Air [1'38]
38		Movement 12: Jig [0'36]
		Incidental music for Rochester's play Valentinian Louis Grabu (fl1665-1694)
39		Movement 1: Air pour les haubois [0'55]
40		Movement 2: Air pour les flutes [2'08]
41		Movement 3: Prelude [1'08]
42		Movement 4: Air pour Jupiter [1'47]
43		Movement 5: Air pour les suivans de Jupiter [0'51]
44		Movement 6: Air pour les songes affreux [1'49]
45		Movement 7: Air pour les satires [1'15]
46		Movement 8: Menuet [1'03]
47		Concert of Venus from Albion and Albanius [2'09] Louis Grabu (fl1665-1694)
48		The Staircase Overture in B flat [2'37] Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
49		Chacony in G minor, Z730 [4'12] Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

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