Musicall Humors
The Musicall Humors ensemble, consisting of the five viols da gamba of Julien Léonard, Nicholas Milne, Myriam Rignol, Lucile Boulanger and Josh Cheatham and the lute of Thomas Dunford, played all twenty-one musical pages of the collection adhering to the particular arrangement of the parts on the sheets of the original music book, designed to be read by players arranged around a table. For this as comprimari, exchanging roles and instruments of different sizes, playing now the main role now the filler role, the violists took turns in performing the main part and the filler parts of each piece, imparting a personal touch that vitalized and made these splendid instrumental dances more interesting, thanks in part to the fact that they modified the original sequence of the pieces in this anthology to create a continuous alternation between pavane and gagliarde.