Early English Organ Music, Vol. 1 (1993)
performed by
Joseph Payne (organ)
composed by
Anonymous, Anonymous, English, Anonymous, Mulliner Book, Anthony Newman, Christopher Gibbons, Giles Farnaby, Henry Purcell, John Blow, John Redford, William Blitheman, William Boyce, William Croft, William Walond
The first volume of Joseph Payne's survey of early English organ music is divided between late Renaissance pieces (both sacred and secular), most of which were compiled in the Mulliner Book by 1560, and Baroque works with a continental flavor written after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. To illuminate these dramatically different styles and periods, Payne plays two modern organs located in Massachusetts that were built to specifications that give a fair approximation of the older English organ sound and character. ...
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The first volume of Joseph Payne's survey of early English organ music is divided between late Renaissance pieces (both sacred and secular), most of which were compiled in the Mulliner Book by 1560, and Baroque works with a continental flavor written after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. To illuminate these dramatically different styles and periods, Payne plays two modern organs located in Massachusetts that were built to specifications that give a fair approximation of the older English organ sound and character. The organ at St. Paul's Church, Brookline, has bright reed and flute stops that lend an intimate quality to the short Mulliner pieces. Yet the instrument's registration is broad enough for Payne to render Giles Farnaby's Fantasy with splendid colors. The Baroque works are served well by the organ at the Annisquam Village Church, Cape Ann, which has the wide assortment of stops necessary for Payne's varied tonal palette. This rich registration is most apparent in the Voluntaries by...
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- Galliard
- A Fansye
- La Bounette; la doune cella
- O lux, with a meane (from the Mulliner Book)
- Exultet Cellum Laudibus, with a meane (from the Mulliner Book)
- Christe Qui Lux
- Lucem Tuam (from the Mulliner Book)
- Christe Qui Lux, with a meane (from the Mulliner Book)
- Sermone Blando Angelus (from the Mulliner Book)
- Eterne Rerum Conditor (from the Mulliner Book)
- Iam Lucis Orto Sidere (from the Mulliner Book)
- Te Deum for organ
- Pavan for keyboard from the Mulliner Book
- Fantasy for organ (unspecified)
- Bonny Sweet Robin
- The Old Spagnoletta, for keyboard (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, No. 289)
- Trumpet Voluntary in D
- Voluntary for organ in G major, Z. 720
- Verse in G
- Voluntary for organ (or harpsichord) No. 1 in D major ("Trumpet Voluntary")
- Voluntary for organ in A
- Work(s): Unspecified Voluntary in D minor
- Greensleeves and Yellow Lace (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- The Constant Lover (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- The British Toper (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- The Happy Clown (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- Salley's Fancy (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- The Maiden's Blush (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- London's Glory (from the Dancing Master, 1719)
- Introduction and Voluntary, in G major
- Work(s): Suite in C for organ: Prelude
- Work(s): Suite in C for organ: Courante
- Work(s): Suite in C for organ: Fugue
- Work(s): Unspecified Voluntary in D Minor
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