Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Vol.7

The 7th and last installment of one of the most prestigious and ambitious recording projects in Early Music: the complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book! 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 last volume presents two of the most famous composers of the time: Giles Farnaby and William Byrd, rounded of by a series of anonymous works. Pieter-Jan Belder plays on copies of Ruckers instruments, built by Titus Crijnen Adlam Burnett and Theo de Haas. The extensive booklet notes are written by the musicologist Jon Baxendale.