William Byrd - Johann Jakob Froberger - Thomas Tomkins - Louis Couperin - Melchior Schildt

Tears - Harpsichord Laments of the 17th-Century

Ewald Demeyere

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD hybrid
Barcode: 0608917261721

Catalog number: CC 72617
Releasedate: 18-09-13

Renaissance and Barock music for Harpsichord and Virginal
Music from Byrd, Froberger,Tomkins, Couperin and Schildt
A fascinating journey through more than a century of harpsichord music.
SACD 2.0 and 5.0 recording in DSD . Hybrid-disc.

Amongst the seventeenth-century harpsichord repertoire, the genre of pieces referring to a loss, whether or not the death of a person, takes a special place, and forms the leitmotif of this disc. These introspective pieces, actually being meditations or contemplations, achieve in a uniquely profound way an almost spiritual level. This recording by harpsichordist Ewald Demeyere includes, amongst others, settings of Dowland’s famous Lachrymae by Byrd and the rather unknown Melchior Schildt, a student of Sweelinck.

I. Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real M.stá di Ferdinando IV