Four and Twenty Fiddlers

CDA66667

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 and Twenty Fiddlers

Music for the Restoration Court Band

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1		Curtain Tune in C major [3'44] Matthew Locke (c1621/3-1677)
		Incidental music for Thomas Shadwell's operatic version of Shakespeare's play The Tempest Matthew Locke (c1621/3-1677) & Robert Smith (c1648-1675)
2		The First Musick: Introduction [1'00]
3		The First Musick: Galliard [1'28]
4		The First Musick: Gavot [1'00]
5		The Second Musick: Saraband [1'52]
6		The Second Musick: Lilk [0'54]
7		The Second Musick: Curtain Tune [3'10]
8		The Second Musick: The First Act Tune 'Rustick Air' [1'15]
9		The Second Musick: The Second Act Tune 'Minoit' [0'46]
10		The Second Musick: The Third Act Tune 'Corant' [1'14]
11		The Second Musick: The Fourth Act Tune 'A Martial Jigge' [1'24]
12		The Second Musick: The Conclusion 'A Canon 4 in 2' [2'49]
		Suite of Brawls in B flat Matthew Locke (c1621/3-1677)
13		First Brawl [2'43]
14		Second Brawl [0'31]
15		Leading Brawl [0'48]
16		Gavotte [1'03]
17		Corant [1'17]
18		Saraband [0'28]
19		Conclusion [0'21]
		Suite in G minor Matthew Locke (c1621/3-1677)
20		Alman [2'08]
21		Corant [0'55]
22		Firk [0'39]
23		Alman [2'22]
24		Corant [1'04]
25		Firk [0'38]
26		Curtain Tune in D major [2'50] Matthew Locke (c1621/3-1677)
		The Musick att the Bath John Banister (c1625-1679)
27		Ayre [2'33]
28		Corant [0'50]
29		Ayre [0'46]
30		Ayre [0'51]
31		Bourree [0'27]
32		Jig [0'41]
33		Air [0'34]
34		Hornpipe [0'43]
35		Sarabande [0'40]
36		Air [0'26]
37		Air [1'38]
38		Jig [0'36]
		Incidental music for Rochester's play Valentinian Louis Grabu (fl1665-1694)
39		Air pour les haubois [0'55]
40		Air pour les flutes [2'08]
41		Prelude [1'08]
42		Air pour Jupiter [1'47]
43		Air pour les suivans de Jupiter [0'51]
44		Air pour les songes affreux [1'49]
45		Air pour les satires [1'15]
46		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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