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).

Tracklist:

Barafostus Dreame[5'17]Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
Can She Excuse My Wrongs?[2'04]John Dowland (1563-1626) ; Anonymous - Baroque
Pavin 'M. Orlando Gibbons'[4'15]Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
The Woods So Wild[4'10]Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Fantasia[4'47]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) the Nynth Pavian and Galliarde, the Passinge Mesures Bk2[10'01]William Byrd (1539/40-16
Pavian[6'16]
Galliarde[3'45]
Nobodyes Gigge[2'12]Richard Farnaby (C1594-?) Chromatic Pavan and Galliard 'Queen Elizabeth's'[8'04]John Bull (?1562/3-1628)
Pavan[5'22] 1
Galliard[2'42] 1
Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, la Bk64[6'29]William Byrd (1539/40-1623) 1
The Scottish Gigg[2'21]Anonymous - Baroque 1
Pavana[5'33]Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) 1
Wooddy-Cock[5'46]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) 1
Tell Mee, Daphne[1'36]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) 1
Why Aske You[2'14]Giles Farnaby (C1563-1640) 1
Fantasia 'MR Dr Bull'[5'59]John Bull (?1562/3-1628) 1
The Leaves Bee Greene[3'25]William Inglot (1554-1621) 1
Variations on the Romanesca[3'21]Anonymous - Renaissance

UPC: 034571282497
Label: Hyperion
Release Date: 11.2.18
Format: CD

Mahan Esfahani - Passinge Mesures (CD)