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Speaking of Orlando Gibbons, if anyone is
interested in checking out more of his keyboard music (and there isn't much of
it, @ 45 pieces), I can recommend the following disc by John Toll: the
woods so wild.
Sadly, this is Toll's last album, having died in
2001 of cancer at the age of 53.
this on the recording from another
list
"I thought the list might be
interested to know that the late John Toll's
last recording -of keyboard music by Orlando Gibbons - has just appeared. It is on the Linn label - CKD125. The music is fantastic and the playing is superb. The recording I think is a worthy memorial to a great player. There are 24 tracks of which 13 are played on a recent instrument by Mike Johnson and 11 on the fine late 17th Century organ by Bernard Smith at Adlington Hall in Cheshire. The harpsichord is a Flemish single manual using speaking lengths and plucking points from a 1637 Ioannes Ruckers working 1 x 8 + 4 and buff. It was tuned at A=407Hz to match the pitch of the organ, and in 1/5-comma meantone. This was the first 1 x 8 + 4 Ruckery instrument that Mike
had made and it was immediately commandeered by John as the perfect instrument for this music. I think the freedom of sound which is generated by the lack of a second 8ft stop is most impressive, and as always with Mike's instruments the balance throughout the compass cannot be faulted. For anyone interested in this repertoire I can't recommend the recording too highly." |