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William Byrd, John Bull - The Visionaries of Pian

Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: July 9. 2021

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1 Byrd: Prelude (Parthenia 1  
2 Byrd: Pavan ?Sir William Petre? (Parthenia 2  
3 Byrd: Galliard Parthenia 3  
4 Byrd: The Battle  
5 Byrd: The Woods so Wild - 14 Variations  
6 Byrd: The Maiden's Song - 8 Variations  
7 Byrd: John Come Kiss Me Now - 16 Variations  
8 Bull: Fantasia  
9 Bull: Fantastic Pavan  
10 Bull: Fantastic Galliard  
11 Bull: Canons 51 - 48 - 39 - 7 - 15 - 114  
12 Bull: Prelude "Laet ons met herten reijne"  
13 Bull: Carol "Laet ons met herten reijne"  
14 Bull: Les Buffons - 15 Variations  
15 Bull: Walsingham - 30 Variations  
16 Byrd: Pavan ?The Earl of Salisbury?  
17 Byrd: Galliard  
18 Byrd: Second Galliard ?Mris Marye Brownlo?  
19 Byrd: The Bells  
20 Bull: Queen Elizabeth?s  
21 Bull: My Grief  
22 Byrd: O Mistress Mine - 6 Variations  
23 Byrd: The Second Ground - 16 Variations  
24 Bull: Prelude  
25 Bull: Melancholy Pavan  
26 Byrd: The Earl of Oxford?s March  
27 Byrd: Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la - Fantasia  
28 Byrd: Ut, mi, re - Fantasia  
29 Bull: Canons 68 - 78 - 79 - 65 - 3 - 53  
30 Byrd: Walsingham - 22 Variations  
31 Byrd: Sellinger's Round - 9 Variations  
32 Bull: Fantasia on a Fugue of Sweelinck  
33 Bull: Telluris ingens conditor: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7  
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Pianist and composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of the early English composers William Byrd andJohn Bull in his Deutsche Grammophon debut album. Exploring a remarkable legacy of works originally written for organ or the virginal – close relative of the harpsichord – William Byrd · John Bull – The Visionaries of Piano Music is set for release on 9 July 2021. In the notes that accompany the double-disc album, Armstrong discusses the composers' immeasurable contribution to keyboard music, their contrasting means of expression, and his own approach to performing sixteenth-century repertoire on a modern instrument.

  • Kit Armstrong, William Byrd, John Bull - The Visionaries of Piano music makes THE WEEK: best albums of 2021
    Posted At: December 30, 2021 12:00 AM
    Pianist and composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of the early English composers William Byrd and John Bull in his Deutsche Grammophon debut album. Exploring a remarkable legacy of works originally written for organ or the virginal – close relative of the harpsichord – William Byrd · John Bull – The Visionaries of Piano Music is set for r...
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  • Kit Armstrong - The Visionaries of Piano Music makes Sequenza21/ 'Best of 2021 Piano Music'
    Posted At: December 16, 2021 12:00 AM
    Sequenza21/ Christian Carey writes….In The Visionaries of Piano Music, Kit Armstrong plays two of the greatest English keyboard composers active during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I on the modern piano, aiming to show what he calls “a seamless line of development” between this repertory and more recent music written explicitly for the piano. William Byrd (ca. 1540-1623) and John Bull (ca. 1562-1628)...
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  • Pianist-composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of William Byrd and John Bull
    Posted At: July 9, 2021 12:00 AM

    Pianist and composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of the early English composers William Byrd and John Bull in his Deutsche Grammophon debut album. Exploring a remarkable legacy of works originally written for organ or the virginal – close relative of the harpsichord – William Byrd · John Bull – The Visionaries of P...
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