Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 5 Pieter-Jan Belder

• John Munday (1555-1630):
• 1Munday's Joy01:24
• 2Fantasia III03:32
• 3Fantasia II03:32
• 4Goe from My Window04:44
• 5Robin02:07
• Ferdinando Richardson (1558-1618):
• 6Pavana IV02:44
• 7Variatio V02:47
• 8Galiarda VI01:43
• 9Variatio VII01:57
• Anonymous
• 10Muscadin XIX00:41
• 11Pavana M.S. XVI02:09
• 12The Irishe Ho-Hoane XXVI01:02
• 13Praeludium XXV01:18
• Ferdinando Richardson (1558-1618):
• 14Pavane XXVII02:49
• 15Variatio XXVIII03:22
• 16Galiarda XXIX01:51
• 17Variatio XXX02:12
• Anonymous
• 18Alman XX01:57
• 19Praeludium XXII00:52
• Thomas Tallis (1505-1585):
• 20Felix namque I, CIX09:05
• Anonymous
• 21Praeludium "El. Kiderminster" XXIII01:06
• Thomas Tallis (1505-1585):
• 22Felix Namque II, CX10:13
• Anonymous
• 23Can shee CLXXXVIII01:47
• Thomas Morley (1557-1602):
• 24Alman CLII01:31
• 25Pavan CLXIX05:45
• 26Galliard CLXX02:56
• 27Nancie XII04:38
• 28Pavan CLIII05:45
• 29Galiard CLIV02:25
• 30Morley Fantasia CXXIV05:33
• 31La volta CLIX01:19
• Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656):
• 32Worster Braules CCVII01:24
• 33Pavana CXXIII06:51
• 34The Hunting Galliard CXXXII01:56
• Anonymous
• 35Pakington's Pownde CLXXVIII02:12
• 36The Irishe Dumpe CLXXIX01:21
• 37The King's Morisco CCXLVII01:05
• 38A Toye CCLXIII00:58
• 39Dalling Alman CCLXXXVIII01:15
• 40Watkins Ale CLXXX00:55
• Edmund Hooper (1553-1621):
• 41Coranto CCXXI01:17
• 42Alman CCXXII01:10
• 43Corrãto CCXXIII00:53
• 44Corranto CCXXIV00:34
• 45Corrãto CCXXV01:12
• 46Corrãto CCXXVI01:05
• 47Alman CCXXVII01:39
• 48Corranto CCXXVIII01:08
• Total Runtime02:01:41

Info zu Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 5

Pieter-Jan Belder continues his superb survey of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, an extraordinary manuscript compiled in the late 16th century and held in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In this, the fifth volume, Belder explores the music of some of the Book’s best known composers, such as Thomas Tallis, John Munday and Thomas Tomkins. Some of these pieces reflect the zenith of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music: the sweet melody of Munday’s ‘Goe from my window’ is still popular today, and his somewhat doleful ‘Munday’s Joy’ is a miniature but perfect example of the harpsichord innovations of the time. Taking inspiration from the medieval tradition of organ improvisations added to a sung offertory, Thomas Tallis’s ‘Felix namque’ showcases the composer’s masterly use of polyrhythms, shifting accents and tempo changes over a static cantus firmus. Thomas Morley – a student of John Byrd – regularly wrote for consorts of instruments, betraying a highly polyphonic style in his keyboard music. The final Thomas – Tomkins – was also a student of Byrd. As one of the last of a dying breed of virginalists, his short but exquisite pieces here highlight the ultimate perfection of the virginalist style.

Pieter-Jan Belder is not only a consummate performer but also a serious scholar of keyboard music from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. His research on the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book has led to a highly informed performance practice, and he lends equal weight to the mighty Tallis and the lowly Anonymous. Belder specialises in performance on historical instruments, and he has carefully selected three period harpsichords for this recording in order to create the most authentic sound possible. The listener is rewarded with a substantial set that highlights the superb achievements of the composers of this era, laying the foundations of keyboard music for centuries to come.

The complete recording of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is highly prestigious project of unprecedented scope and importance. The high quality of the music and the excellent performances by Pieter-Jan Belder make it a landmark of historical importance.

It 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, written by Bull, Byrd, Tomkins and many others.

This set contains works by some famous and some less well known composers: Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, John Munday, Thomas Tomkins, Ferdinando Richardson and a fine line up of Anonymous composers. The repertoire consists of a wide variety of dance forms such as Pavan, Galliarda, Fantasia and instrumental arrangements of popular songs or madrigals.

Pieter Jan Belder is one of the world’s foremost keyboard players, with an astonishing number of CD’s to his name: the complete Scarlatti Sonatas, Bach keyboard works, Rameau, Soler, Duphly, Marais, CPE Bach, Corelli, Purcell, Telemann…he also wrote the excellent liner notes in the booklet.

Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord

Recorded in 2015 in the Chapel of the Capuchin Monastery, Velp, The Netherlands

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