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Track(s) taken from CDA66734

Aria del Gran Duca Ferdinando di Toscana

composer
Emilio de' Cavalieri (c1550-1602)
1589; published 1591; Berlin-Krakóm MS40316
arranger
Peter Philips (1560/1-1628)
No 16 from Francis Tregian Canzone et Pavane di diversi, British Library, Egerton MS 3665, pp.1022-32

Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/virginals)
Recording details: December 1993
All Saints' Church, Old Heathfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: September 1994
Total duration: 1 minutes 57 seconds

Cover artwork: The Virginalist. Jan Miensz Molenaer (c1610-1668)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
 

Other recordings available for download

The Parley of Instruments

Reviews

‘Strongly recommended as a step on the path to discovering one of the outstanding musicians of the late 16th/early 17th century’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘The complete restoration of a great composer's name may be beyond the capacity of a single CD, but if anything can do the trick, this one ought to. A release to treasure’ (CDReview)

‘One of the finest composers nurtured in Elizabethan England … these performances can only enhance the composer's reputation further’ (Early Music)

«Voici un disque de toute beauté pour fêter Palestrina» (Répertoire, France)

Other albums featuring this work

Philips: Consort Music
The Parley of Instruments
CDA66240Download only

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