Artist: Robert Woolley

Title: Sweelinck: Keyboard Works, Vol. 1

Year Of Release: 2003

Label: Chandos

Genre: Classical

Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)



Tracklist:



Vol. 1



01. Toccata

02. Psalm 140

03. Hexachord fantasia

04. Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein

05. Echo fantasia

06. Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr

07. Fantasia, "met bindingen"

08. Mein junges Leben hat ein End

09. Toccata

10. Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott

11. Toccata

12. Psalm 116

13. Fantasia



As well as being one of the most famous organists and teachers of his time, Sweelinck was the last and most important composer of the musically rich golden era of the Netherlanders. His output comprises seventy works for keyboard, which represent some of the most richly imaginative music of the period, yet none was published during his lifetime.



Robert Woolley has a large discography on Chandos, both as a soloist and as a member of The Purcell Quartet, the ensemble he co-founded in 1983. An internationally regarded authority on the music of this period, he broadcasts regularly for the BBC and has performed and recorded on many historic instruments. On this recording, he plays two instruments: a modern copy by Malcolm Rose of the Lodewijk Theewes claviorgan of 1579, a harpsichord-organ combination which has belonged to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London since 1890; and a rarely heard virginal, or muselar, by the firm Adlam Burnett, based on an instrument of Ioannes Ruckers from 1611 in the Finchcocks collection.