The 6th and penultimate instalment of one of the most prestigious and ambitious recording projects in Early Music: the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book!

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is the most famous, extensive and important collection of keyboard music from the English Elizabethan and Jacobean Era. Lodged in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge it contains more than 300 works for the virginal, by composers such as John, Bull, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins and many others.

This 6th issue presents the remainder of the works by John Bull in the manuscript, consisting of dance forms like Galliarda, Pavan, Alman and others. The second CD is dedicated to composers who only contributed a few works to the manuscript: Warrock, Galleazzo, Peerson, Parsons, Tisdale, Inglott, Marchant, Oysermayre, Oldfield and Blytheman.

Pieter-Jan Belder, one of the world’s most respected and prolific harpsichordists, received rave reviews for his previous issues in this series: “..a captivating portrait..full of rhythmic drive..he displays a keen sense of rhythm…broad and brilliant gestures…one of the most important recording projects of this decade..”(Musicweb-International).

• anon.: Alman CCII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Alman CCXLIX (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Alman XIV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: An almain CC (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Corranto CCI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Corranto CCIII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Corranto CCIV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Corranto CCV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Daunce CCVI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Galiarda XXI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Martyn Said To The Man
• anon.: Praeludium CXVII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• anon.: Prelude CXI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: A Gigge CLXC (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Christe Redemptor omnium
• Bull, J: Doctor Bull’s My Selfe
• Bull, J: Dr. Bull's Juel
• Bull, J: Galliard CLXXXV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Galliard CLXXXVI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Galliarda (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Galliarda XVII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Misere in Three Parts CLXXIX (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Praeludium CXV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Praeludium D. CLXXXIV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Praeludium. Dor. CXVI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Prelude and veni Redemptor gentium CVI and CVII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Bull, J: Salvator Mundi (Musica Britannica No. 2)
• Bull, J: The duchesse of brunswick's toye [most sweet and fayre]
• Bull, J: The Spanish Pavan
• Bull, J: Ut re mi fa sol la
• Bull, J: Veni Redemptor gentium XXXVIII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Inglott: A Galliard Ground CCL (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Johnson, R: Alman CXLVI (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Johnson, R: Pavana CCXX (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Marchant: Allemanda CLXXXVII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Parsons, R: Alman CXLV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Parsons, R: In nomine CXL (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Peerson: Alman XC (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Peerson: The Primerose (P VI/4)
• Tisdale: Almand
• Tisdale: Galliarda CCXCV (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Tisdale: Pavana Chromatica (Mrs. Katherin Tregians Paven)
• Warrock: Galliard XCVIII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
• Warrock: Pavana XCVII (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)