Gramophone Magazine
August 2021
Editor's Choice

Kit Armstrong (piano)

Byrd: Prelude (Parthenia 1; MB 27 / 1)
Byrd: Pavan "Sir William Petre"
Byrd: Galliard (Parthenia 3; MB 27 / 3b)
Byrd: The Battell: The Flute and the Droome
Byrd: The wood so wild
Byrd: The Maiden Song, MB82
Byrd: John come kiss me now
Bull, J: Fantasia (Fitzwilliam 108)
Bull, J: Fantastic Pavan (Fitzwilliam 34; MB 19 / 86a)
Bull, J: Fantastic Galliard (Fitzwilliam 35; MB 19 / 86b)
Bull, J: Canons 51 - 48 - 39 - 7 - 15 - 114 (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 17771)
Bull, J: Prelude "Laet ons met herten reijne" (MB 14 / 56; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 65)
Bull, J: Carol "Laet ons met herten reijne" (MB 14 / 56; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 65)
Bull, J: Les Buffons
Bull, J: Walsingham
Byrd: Pavana "The Earle of Salisbury"
Byrd: Galliard (Parthenia 7; MB 27 / 15b)
Byrd: Galliard in C major 'Mistress Mary Brownlow'
Byrd: The Bells
Bull, J: Chromatic (Queen Elisabeth's) Pavan
Bull, J: My Grief
Byrd: O mistress mine, I must
Byrd: The Second Ground - 16 Variations (Nevell 30; MB 27 / 42)
Bull, J: Prelude (Fitzwilliam 43)
Bull, J: Melancholy Pavan
Byrd: Earl of Oxford's March
Byrd: Ut re mi fa sol la
Byrd: Ut, mi, re
Bull, J: Canons 68 - 78 - 79 - 65 - 3 - 53 (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 17771)
Byrd: Walsingham
Byrd: Sellinger's Round
Bull, J: Fantasia on a Fugue of Sweelinck
Bull, J: Telluris ingens conditor: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 (MB 14 / 47; BL Add. Ms 23623 f. 170)

American pianist and composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of Elizabethan England. For his first album on Deutsche Grammophon, Kit Armstrong presents works by two composers who elevated instrumental music to new heights of refinement in the Golden Age of Elizabeth I and her successor James I.