English Virginal Music from the Golden Age –
Sensitively Interpreted on the Harpsichord by Friederike Chylek
Time stands still
William Byrd ? (1543 – 1623)
Prelude MB 55/3
Anonymous (aus: The Mulliner Book, ca. 1545 – 1570)
Galliard MB 1/2
William Byrd
My Ladye Nevell’s Ground MB 28/57
John Dowland (1563 – 1626)
Lachrymae Pavan (set by Byrd) MB 28/54
Robert Johnson (1580 ? – 1633)
(aus: The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
Alman, CXLVI
Giles Farnaby (1563 ? – 1640)
Paul’s Wharf MB24/46
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695)
Suite in g-Moll, Z 661
Air, Z 641
A New Irish Tune, Z 646
March, Z 648
Riggadoon, Z 653
Suite in a-Moll, Z 663
A New Ground, Z T682
Hornpipe, Z 607/4
William Byrd
Lavolta MB 28/91
Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 1656)
Ground MB 5/39
Robert Johnson
Pavan (set by Farnaby) MB 24/14
John Dowland
(aus: The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, 1603)
Time stands still (arr. Friederike Chylek)
Friederike Chylek, Cembalo
Friederike Chylek, born in Starnberg, began playing the piano and the recorder at age seven. Whilst still attending secondary school in Stockdorf and Gräfelfing, she began her artistic edu-cation in Munich with the harpsichordist Michael Eberth. Start-ing in the year 2000, she studied harpsichord and figured bass at the world renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with pro-fessors including Jesper Christensen, with Rudolf Lutz (historical improvisation) and Edoardo Torbianelli (fortepiano).
She performs regularly in numerous concert halls in Germany and abroad and is a welcome guest at such select festivals as the Cadenza Baroque Days in Berlin, the Handel Festival in Göttingen and the Festiwal Maj z Muzyka Dawna, Wroclaw, amongst many others.
With the present CD, Friederike Chylek puts an end to preju-dices against English music - England was long denigrated as the “Land without Music” – bringing time to a standstill with works from the Golden Age of Virginal Music, numerous per-formance and compositional techniques of which provided decisive impulses for the development of European keyboard music.