Release Date: 29 May 2026
Label: Outhere / Fuga Libera
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5400439008670
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Music for These Troubled Times
Description
Music for These Troubled Times explores the melancholy of the past through the keyboard repertoire of the English virginalists of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and links this still familiar state of mind with the present -- an age of social and political turbulence, uncertainty, and wars -- through Maxim Shalygin's KHORA. Inspired by Robert Burton's 1621 treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy, which praises music as a remedy for the troubled mind, the programme moves between contemplative pavanes, witty variations, and complex polyphonic works. It includes rarely performed pieces and a first recording of the anonymous A Ground. Recorded on three unique harpsichords, it features a rare copy after 1579 L. Theewes' earliest surviving English instrument, a reconstruction of the original state of the 1612 I. Ruckers transposing double-manual harpsichord and a copy of the marvellous 1751 H. Hemsch.
Mosaic
Miriam Prandi
Camille El Bacha; Naghib Shanbehzadeh
L'Acheron; Francois Joubert-Caillet
Aurelia Visovan; Coline Dutilleul
Nikola Meeuwsen
Musica Viva; Alexander Rudin
Dmytro Kokoshynskyy
Julian Joseph and Marcelo Bratke
Timothy Ridout; Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne; Jamie Phillips
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Adam Field, Sarah MacDonald
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Sachin Gunga, David Price
Julien Van Mellaerts, Dylan Perez
Aisslinn Nosky and Yiheng Yang
Valerio Celentano
Valentina Danelon/Cristina Santin
