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This program presents music for keyboard instruments, viols, and voices by late Tudor and early Jacobean composers like Thomas Tomkins, Orlando Gibbons, and Giles Farnaby. We'll hear works for harpsichord from a 2018 release by Mahan Esfahani, plus performances by Rose Consort of Viols and Fretwork.

  • Thomas Tomkins: Too Much I Once Lamented. Performed by Calmus Ensemble. 
  • Thomas Tomkins: Barafostus Dreame. Performed by Mahan Esfahani. 
  • Thomas Tomkins: Pavane a 6. Performed by Fretwork. 
  • Thomas Tomkins: Galliard a 6. Performed by Fretwork.
  • Thomas Tomkins: Fantasia a 3. Performed by Fretwork. 
  • Thomas Tomkins: Alman a 4. Performed by Fretwork. 
  • Thomas Tomkins: Above the Starrs my savior dwells. Performed by Fretwork; Emma Kirkby, soprano; Charles Daniels, tenor.
  • Orlando Gibbons: Galliard a 6. Performed by Rose Consort of Viols.
  • Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan. Performed by Rose Consort of Viols; Tessa Bonner, soprano.
  • Orlando Gibbons: The Woods so Wild. Performed by Mahan Esfahani.
  • John Bull: Fantasy ‘Mr. Dr. Bull’. Performed by Mahan Esfahani.
  • William Byrd: Ut, re, mi, fa, so, la, BK64. Performed by Mahan Esfahani. 
  • Giles Farnaby: Tell, mee, Daphne. Performed by Mahan Esfahani.
  • Giles Farnaby: Wooddy Cock. Performed by Mahan Esfahani.
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