Daniel-Ben Pienaar - Byrd - Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Pavan in C, MB XXVII-XXVIII, 29a
02. Galliard in C, MB 29b
03. Pavan in G, MB 71a
04. Galliard in G, MB 71b
05. Pavan in A, MB 14a
06. Galliard in A, MB 14b
07. Pavan in C, MB 30a
08. Galliard in C, MB 30b
09. Pavan in C, MB 31a
10. Galliard in C, MB 31b
11. Pavan in C, MB 32a
12. Galliard in C, MB 32b
13. Sellinger’s round, MB 84
14. Hornpipe, MB 39
15. O Mistress mine, MB 83
16. John, come kiss me now, MB 81
17. Calino casturarme, MB 35
18. Pavan, Canon 2 in 1, MB 74
19. Pavan in A, MB 17
20. Passamezzo Pavan, MB 2a
21. Passamezzo Galliard, MB 2b
22. Rowland, or Lord Willoughby’s welcome home, MB 7

CD2
01. Qui passe, for my Lady Nevell, MB 19
02. Hugh Ashton’s Ground, MB 20
03. My Lady Nevell’s Ground, MB 57
04. Pavan, Sir William Petre, MB 3a
05. Galliard, Sir William Petre, MB 3b
06. Galliard, Mistress Mary Brownlow, MB 34
07. Pavan, The Earl of Salisbury, MB 15a
08. Galliard, The Earl of Salisbury, MB 15b
09. Second Galliard, MB 15c
10. Go from my window now, MB 79
11. Ground, MB 42
12. The Woods so wild, MB 85
13. Walsingham, MB 8
14. The Bells, MB 38
15. Quadran Pavan, MB 70a
16. Quadran Galliard, MB 70b
17. The Carman’s whistle, MB 36
18. Fantasia in A, MB13

Daniel-Ben Pienaar continues his campaign of performing early music on a modern piano with an abundant selection of Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds by William Byrd.

The 16th-century composer's finest sets of dances and variations, featuring some of the Elizabethan era's most popular tunes, set the standard for English keyboard music for generations to come.

With astonishing virtuosity, Daniel-Ben elicits a wealth of colour and textures from his Steinway model D. Two-and-a-half hours of music spread over two CDs, this is most substantial survey of Byrd's keyboard music ever recorded on a modern piano, and ranges from frequently-heard works such as the First Pavan and Sellinger's Round to little-known gems like Callino Casturame and the late, great Quadran Pavan and Galliard.

Daniel-Ben Pienaar enjoys an international reputation for his unusual musicianship, in particular fo his highly individual readings of the German piano classics and for playing an extensive repertoire of preBach works on the piano. He is noted for a sizeable discography including much-praised complete traversals of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations and Six Partitas, as well as the Sonata cycles of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. He has made the first complete recordings of the keyboard works of Jacobean composer Orlando Gibbons and of the mature piano music of South African composer Arnold van Wyk, and the first recording on piano of Gaspard Le Roux's Pices de clavessin (1705). Pienaar is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, where he lectures, and a Professor of the University of London.

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