Artist: Robert Woolley
Title: Sweelinck: Keyboard Works, Vol. 3
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)

Vol. 3

01. Toccata in Ionian mode, SwWV 282
02. Poolse almande, SwWV 330, "Soll es sein"
03. Echo fantasia in Ionian mode, SwWV 253
04. Toccata in G Dorian mode, SwWV 293
05. Pavana hispanica, SwWV 327
06. Fantasia in G Dorian mode, SwWV 272
07. Toccata in Dorian mode, SwWV 285
08. Ik voer al over Rijn, SwWV 322
09. Fantasia in Dorian mode, SwWV 259
10. Toccata in G Dorian mode, SwWV 295
11. Malle Sijmen (Simple Simon), SwWV 323
12. Fantasia in Dorian mode, SwWV 262
13. Puer nobis nascitur, SwWV 315
14. Echo fantasia in Ionian mode, SwWV 254
15. Almande Chapelle, SwWV 317
16. Fantasia re re re sol ut mi fa sol, SwWV 269
17. Ballo del granduca, SwWV 319

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.