Artist: Robert Woolley
Title: Sweelinck: Keyboard Works, Vol. 2
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)

Vol. 2

01. Toccata Noni toni, SwWV 297
02. Est-ce Mars, SwWV 321
03. Pavana Lachrymae, SwWV 328
04. Almande Gratie, SwWV 318, "More Palatino"
05. Toccata C2, SwWV 283
06. Vluchtige nymph, SwWV 331
07. Toccata primi toni, SwWV 286
08. Mein junges Leben hat ein End, SwWV 324
09. Toccata a 3 G2, SwWV 289
10. Pavana Philippi, SwWV 329
11. Toccata Secundi toni, SwWV 292
12. Engelse fortuin, SwWV 320, "Von der Fortuna werd ich getrieben" (Fortune My Foe)
13. Onder een linde groen (Unter der Linden grune), SwWV 325
14. Fantasia chromatica in Dorian mode, SwWV 258

As well as being one of the most famous organists and teachers of his time, Sweelinck was the last and most important composer of the musically rich golden era of the Netherlanders. His output comprises seventy works for keyboard, which represent some of the most richly imaginative music of the period, yet none was published during his lifetime.

Robert Woolley has a large discography on Chandos, both as a soloist and as a member of The Purcell Quartet, the ensemble he co-founded in 1983. An internationally regarded authority on the music of this period, he broadcasts regularly for the BBC and has performed and recorded on many historic instruments. On this recording, he plays two instruments: a modern copy by Malcolm Rose of the Lodewijk Theewes claviorgan of 1579, a harpsichord-organ combination which has belonged to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London since 1890; and a rarely heard virginal, or muselar, by the firm Adlam Burnett, based on an instrument of Ioannes Ruckers from 1611 in the Finchcocks collection.