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The Visionaries of Piano Music

Works by William Byrd & John Bull

Kit Armstrong (piano)

Armstrong’s playing is both expressive and technically brilliant, a combination here in constant demand as the ornamentation is intricate and often dizzyingly fast. And they run the emotional... More…
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    17th December 2021

2 CDs

$20.00

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This release includes a digital booklet

Contents

Byrd: Prelude (Parthenia 1; MB 27 / 1)

Work length0:40
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Pavan "Sir William Petre"

Work length4:42
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Galliard (Parthenia 3; MB 27 / 3b)

Work length2:33
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: The Battell: The Flute and the Droome

Work length1:48
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: The wood so wild

Work length3:37
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: The Maiden Song, MB82

Work length5:32
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: John come kiss me now

Work length5:22
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Fantasia (Fitzwilliam 108)

Work length3:58
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Fantastic Pavan (Fitzwilliam 34; MB 19 / 86a)

Work length4:43
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Fantastic Galliard (Fitzwilliam 35; MB 19 / 86b)

Work length1:37
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Canons 51 - 48 - 39 - 7 - 15 - 114 (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 17771)

Work length3:40
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Prelude "Laet ons met herten reijne" (MB 14 / 56; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 65)

Work length1:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Carol "Laet ons met herten reijne" (MB 14 / 56; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 65)

Work length2:04
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Les Buffons

Work length3:21
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Walsingham

Work length13:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Pavana "The Earle of Salisbury"

Work length2:03
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Galliard (Parthenia 7; MB 27 / 15b)

Work length1:17
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Galliard in C major 'Mistress Mary Brownlow'

Work length3:36
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: The Bells

Work length6:08
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Chromatic (Queen Elisabeth's) Pavan

Work length4:34
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: My Grief

Work length1:55
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: O mistress mine, I must

Work length4:28
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: The Second Ground - 16 Variations (Nevell 30; MB 27 / 42)

Work length7:08
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Prelude (Fitzwilliam 43)

Work length1:44
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Melancholy Pavan

Work length4:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Earl of Oxford's March

Work length3:11
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Ut re mi fa sol la

Work length6:31
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Ut, mi, re

Work length4:54
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Canons 68 - 78 - 79 - 65 - 3 - 53 (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 17771)

Work length3:28
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Walsingham

Work length8:51
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Byrd: Sellinger's Round

Work length4:19
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Fantasia on a Fugue of Sweelinck

Work length3:53
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin

Bull, J: Telluris ingens conditor: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 (MB 14 / 47; BL Add. Ms 23623 f. 170)

Work length5:03
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kit Armstrong (piano)
  • Recorded: 2020-08-11
  • Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin