The cover of this disc fails to mention what for most listeners may be the main attraction: the "moeder & kind" or mother-and-child virginal used for a majority of the compositions. Quite rare (only three working examples are known to exist), it features a miniature keyboard, above the main one, that can emerge or be recessed by the player as needed. Keyboardist Guy Penson uses it here (the manuscript specifies no particular instrument) in antiphonal passages and in the top register; sample track 21, the Almande Brun ...
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The cover of this disc fails to mention what for most listeners may be the main attraction: the "moeder & kind" or mother-and-child virginal used for a majority of the compositions. Quite rare (only three working examples are known to exist), it features a miniature keyboard, above the main one, that can emerge or be recessed by the player as needed. Keyboardist Guy Penson uses it here (the manuscript specifies no particular instrument) in antiphonal passages and in the top register; sample track 21, the Almande Brun Smeedelyn, for an example of how the instrument can spice up a piece of virginal music. The nicely illustrated booklet includes several gorgeous photos of the instrument used. For nonspecialists, those are more interesting than the text, which recounts some of the detective work surrounding the Susanne van Soldt Virginal Book, a collection of hand-copied virginal music, not a publication. The mostly anonymous music is multinational, consisting of the sort of popular dances that appear in...
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Very Good. A clean unscratched CD with the original cover art and jewel case. Not a cutout, promo or club pressing. Shipping within 24 hours with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
