Farnaby: Harpsichord music

Giles Farnaby's Dream
Pieces pour clavier
Pierre Hantaï
ADDA 581172
Accord 242 212
Accord 476 057

Contents:

  1. For two virginals
  2. Muscadin
  3. Fantasia No. 5
  4. Meridian Alman
  5. Mal Sims
  6. Alman No. 22
  7. Rosseter's Galliard
  8. Woody-Cock
  9. A maske (MB No. 33)
  10. Pawles Wharfe
  11. The Old Spagnioletta
  12. Fantasia No. 12
  13. His Humour
  14. A Maske
  15. The King's Hunt
  16. Fantasia No. 7
  17. A Gigge
  18. Galiarda
  19. Tell mee Daphne
  20. Spagnioletta
  21. Fantasia No. 10
  22. A Maske (MB No. 32)
  23. Johnson's Alman
  24. Fantasia
  25. Johnson's Pavana
  26. Why aske you
  27. Giles Farnaby's Dreame
  28. Quodling's Delight
  29. Lachrymae Pavan
  30. A Toye

Extra performer: Élisabeth Joye (track #1)

Playing time: 76'

Recording date: February & March 1990

Instrument: Italian harpsichord "F. A. 1677" - Kenneth Gilbert's collection (tracks 1-21); harpsichord Ruckers 1624 (tracks 22-30)

The amateur Giles Farnaby (c.1563-1640) produced some of the most idiosyncratic music of the all-too-short period of the English virginalists. One cannot really compare him to the great masters of the genre, but he provides a welcome contrast.

Other dedicated recordings:

Farnaby: Complete Fantasias for Harpsichord
Glen Wilson
Naxos 8.570025
Giles Farnaby's Dreame
Bradford Tracey
Adagio 91614
Farnaby's Dreame
20 pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Timothy Roberts
Early-Music.com Productions 7756

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Todd M. McComb