Description

These two sets of pieces celebrate all the characteristics of the music of this fine English composer – modal inflections, the influence of 16th-century English composers, quirky fast movements, and, in the piece ‘There was a most beautiful lady’, elegiac melodies of great beauty.

CONTENTS:

Galliard, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’

Gavotte, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’

Jig, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’

Kings and Queens, from ‘Country Pageant’

Merry Andrew’s Procession, from ‘Country Pageant’

Minuet, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’

Pavane, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’

Rigadoon, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’

The Mummers’ Dance, from ‘Country Pageant’

There was a most beautiful Lady, from ‘Country Pageant’