Artist: Mahan Esfahani
Title: The Passinge mesures
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: Hyperion
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit - 96kHz FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 77:34
Total Size: 1.59 GB

Tracklist:

1. Barafostus Dreame (05:17)
2. Can She Excuse My Wrongs? (02:04)
3. Pavin, "M. Orlando Gibbons" (04:15)
4. The Woods so Wild (04:10)
5. Fantasia (04:47)
6. The Nynth Pavian and Galliarde, the Passinge Mesures, BK 2: I. Pavian (06:16)
7. The Nynth Pavian and Galliarde, the Passinge Mesures, BK 2: II. Galliarde (03:45)
8. Nobodyes Gigge (02:12)
9. Chromatic Pavan and Galliard, "Queen Elizabeth's": I. Pavan (05:22)
10. Chromatic Pavan and Galliard, "Queen Elizabeth's": II. Galliard (02:42)
11. Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, BK 64 (06:29)
12. The Scottish Gigg (02:21)
13. Pavana (05:33)
14. Wooddy-Cock (05:46)
15. Tell Mee, Daphne (01:36)
16. Why Aske You? (02:14)
17. Fantasia, "Mr. Dr. Bull" (05:59)
18. The Leaves Bee Greene (03:25)
19. Variations on the Romanesca (03:21)

This sensational recital—featuring some of the greatest keyboard music to emerge from these islands—is the perfect vehicle for Mahan Esfahani’s abundant talents. His accompanying booklet notes are an added bonus, guaranteed to inform, illuminate and provoke by turns.

Performed for the most part on a double-manual harpsichord made by Robert Goble & Son, Oxford (1990), kindly loaned by Bob Robertson and based on an instrument made by Carl Conrad Fleischer, Hamburg (1710); tracks 12, 15, 18 & 19 performed on virginals made by Huw Saunders, London (1989), kindly loaned by Huw Saunders and a copy of an instrument made by Thomas White, Old Jewry, London (1642). The temperament used for the recording was quarter-comma meantone, a'=408Hz.

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)