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This sensational recital-featuring some of the greatest keyboard music to emerge from these islands-is the perfect vehicle for Mahan Esfahani's abundant talents. His accompanying booklet notes are an added bonus, guaranteed to inform, illuminate and provoke by turns. Performed for the most part on a double-manual harpsichord made by Robert Goble & Son, Oxford (1990), kindly loaned by Bob Robertson and based on an instrument made by Carl Conrad Fleischer, Hamburg (1710); tracks 12, 15, 18 & 19 performed on virginals made by Huw Saunders, London (1989), kindly loaned by Huw Saunders and a copy of an instrument made by Thomas White, Old Jewry, London (1642). Album Tracks 1. Barafostus Dreame[5'17]Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) 2. Can She Excuse My Wrongs?[2'04]John Dowland (1563-1626) & Anonymous - Baroque 3. Pavin 'M. Orlando Gibbons'[4'15]Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) 4. The Woods So Wild[4'10]Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) 5. Fantasia[4'47]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) the Nynth Pavian and Galliarde, the Passinge Mesures Bk2[10'01]William Byrd (1539/40-1623) 6. Pavian[6'16] 7. Galliarde[3'45] 8. Nobodyes Gigge[2'12]Richard Farnaby (C1594-?) Chromatic Pavan and Galliard 'Queen Elizabeth's'[8'04]John Bull (?1562/3-1628) 9. Pavan[5'22] 10. Galliard[2'42] 11. Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, la Bk64[6'29]William Byrd (1539/40-1623) 12. The Scottish Gigg[2'21]Anonymous - Baroque 13. Pavana[5'33]Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) 14. Wooddy-Cock[5'46]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) 15. Tell Mee, Daphne[1'36]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) 16. Why Aske You[2'14]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) 17. Fantasia 'MR Dr Bull'[5'59]John Bull (?1562/3-1628) 18. The Leaves Bee Greene[3'25]William Inglot (1554-1621) 19. Variations on the Romanesca[3'21]Anonymous - Renaissance
