Renaissance
Shani Diluka (piano)
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Video Clip of the Year
Diluka's fascination is with the idea of the Renaissance and its legacy; but the rationale is all a bit woolly, even if 'Dido's Lament' (harrowingly) and Handel's great Chaconne in G (exuberantly)...
Renaissance
Shani Diluka (piano)
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Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Video Clip of the Year
Diluka's fascination is with the idea of the Renaissance and its legacy; but the rationale is all a bit woolly, even if 'Dido's Lament' (harrowingly) and Handel's great Chaconne in G (exuberantly)...
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On Renaissance, Shani Diluka invites us on a journey through the humanist movement of the Renaissance era with repertoire selected from Byrd to Frescobaldi, from Dowland to Monteverdi. Many of the pieces have never been played on the modern piano, yet Diluka's thoughtful playing is close to the intimate sounds of the harpsichord and clavichord. The album examines the effect of the Elizabethan and Italian rennaisance traditions on the development of classical music in Europe.
Contents and tracklist
Eccles, J:
The Mad Lover: V. Aire. Ground (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length1:58
Byrd:
Pavan and Two Galliards: I. The Earl of Salisbury Pavan
Work length1:35
anon.:
My Lady Carey's Dompe (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length1:18
Byrd:
Pavana Lachrymae (After Dowland's "Flow My Tears")
Work length5:13
Work length2:17
Frescobaldi:
Toccate e partite d'intavolatura, Libro 1: Partite cento sopra il passacagli
Work length1:50
Palestrina:
Panis angelicus (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length2:27
Frescobaldi:
Toccate e partite d'intavolatura, Libro 1: Partite sopra l’aria di Folia
Work length5:58
Monteverdi:
Sì dolce è'l tormento, SV 332 (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length2:20
Purcell:
Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in A Minor, Z. 663
Work length2:18
I. Prelude
Track length0:30
II. Allemande
Track length1:48
Purcell:
Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in G Major, Z. 660: I. Prelude
Work length0:48
Purcell:
Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in G Minor, Z. 661: II. Allemande
Work length3:36
Purcell:
Come, Ye Sons of Art Away, Z. 323: Sinfonia (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length1:32
Purcell:
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: Dido's Lament (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length3:30
Corelli:
Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6 No. 4: II. Adagio (Arr. Diluka for Piano)
Work length1:43
Awards and reviews
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Opus Klassik Awards2026Winner - Video Clip of the Year
December 2025
Diluka's fascination is with the idea of the Renaissance and its legacy; but the rationale is all a bit woolly, even if 'Dido's Lament' (harrowingly) and Handel's great Chaconne in G (exuberantly) shake hands with the time-honoured imperatives of the ground bass. Wooliness is not a charge that can be laid at her thoughtful pianism, however.
