The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 3

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 3

The long awaited third volume of the complete recording of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, by Pieter‐Jan Belder. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is the most famous, extensive and important collection of keyboard music from the English Elizabethan and Jacobean Era. Lodged in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge it contains more than 300 works for the virginal, by composers such as John, Bull, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins and many others. This third volume features keyboard works by Peter Philips and JP Sweelinck, the only non‐English composer in the collection. Philips and Sweelinck knew each other, and share their skills in the variation form, transforming a melody in ever increasing complexity of ornamentation and counterpoint. Pieter Jan Belder is one of the world’s foremost keyboard players, with an astonishing number of CD’s to his name: the complete Scarlatti Sonatas, Bach keyboard works, Rameau, Soler, Duphly, Marais, CPE Bach, Corelli, Purcell, Telemann.