Keyboard works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
CDA68445 77 minutes 35 seconds
‘Encountering a palace of riches’ is how pianist (and Hyperion debutante) Mishka Rushdie Momen describes her experience of playing Tudor keyboard music, a varied selection of which is included here. It’s a description which could apply equally to the listener discovering the music in performances as convincingly idiomatic as these.
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‘[Mishka Rushdie Momen] seeks an underlying spirituality to the music. The playing is smoother, the touch lighter, the aim more to comfort the mind than arrest it … less dramatic but more even-te ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen is on a pilgrimage to restore a fuller picture of English Renaissance music after the 'cultural vandalism' of the English Reformation. Well-rounded musical portraits, ric ...
BBC Music Magazine‘Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen is on a pilgrimage to restore a fuller picture of English Renaissance music after the 'cultural vandalism' of the English Reformation. Well-rounded musical portraits, ric ...