Gerald Gifford | English Keyboard Music | CD

Gerald Gifford is a keyboard performer whose recordings explore historical repertoire and the individual character of early keyboard instruments. The relationship between touch, articulation and musical structure is central to this music, making clarity of line and the colour of the instrument important parts of the listening experience.

A Treasury of English Keyboard Music places Gerald Gifford's playing within a wide programme of historical English repertoire. Music by composers including Orlando Gibbons, Maurice Greene and Charles Burney allows different forms and keyboard textures to be heard together, revealing the variety within this instrumental tradition.

Track List

1. Prelude
2. The Fall of the Leafe
3. The Frogge
4. The Prince's Masque/The Shepherd/The Queen's Masque
5. Lesson in D Major
6. Lesson XXIII/Lesson II
7. Andante and Variation
8. The Norwich Minuet
9. In Nomine
10. Three Versus On, 'O Lord in Thee Is All My Trust'
11. A Lesson Or Voluntary
12. Voluntary I
13. Piece IX
14. Cornet Voluntary
15. Voluntary in C Minor