Four and twenty fiddlers : music for the Restoration court violin band

Author(s)

• Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 2
• Smith, Robert, ca.
• Banister, John
• Holman, Peter
• Grabu, Louis, d. 1694
• Purcell, Henry
• Parley of Instruments

Bibliographic Information

Four and twenty fiddlers : music for the Restoration court violin band

（The English Orpheus, v. 19）

Hyperion, c1993

Musical Sound Recording（Compact Audio Disc）

Other Title

Four and twenty fiddlers : music for the Restoration court band

Note

Added title from pamphlet

The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Band ; Peter Holman, conductor

Recorded on 17, 18, 19, May 1993

Compact disc

Hyperion: CDA66667

Contents of Works

• Curtain tune in C major, 4 violins, 2 violas I, 2 violas II, 4 bass violins, theorbo, harpsichord / Matthew Locke
• Incidental music for Thomas Shadwell's operatic version of Shakespeare's play "The tempest" : (1674) : 4 violins I, 2 violins II, 2 violas, 4 bass violins, theorbo, harpsichord / Matthew Locke & Robert Smith
• Suite of brawles : in B flat, 4 violins, 2 violas I, 2 violas II, 4 bass violins / Matthew Locke
• Suite in G minor, violin, 2 violas, bass violin, theorbo, harpsichord / Matthew Locke
• Curtain tune in D major, 4 violins, 2 violas I, 2 violas II, 4 bass violins, theorbo, harpsichord / Matthew Locke
• The musick att the bath : (1663) : 3 violins, 1 viola I, 1 viola II, 2 bass violins / John Banister ; completed [by] Peter Holman
• Incidental music for Rochester's play "Valentinian" : (1684) : 2 oboes, 2 recorders, 4 violins, 2 violas I, 2 violas II, 2 violas III, 4 bass violins / Louis Grabu
• Concert of Venus from "Albion and Albanius" : (1685) : 2 recorders, 4 violins, 2 violas I, 2 violas II, 2 violas III, 4 bass violins, theorbo, harpsichord / Louis Grabu
• The staircase overture : in B flat, 2 violins, viola, bass violin, theorbo, harpsichord / Henry Purcell
• Chacony in G minor, Z730, 4 violins I, 2 violins II, 2 violas, 4 bass violins, theorbo, harpsichord / Henry Purcell

Details

• NCID: BB03426542
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: und
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 1 sound disc (68 min., 36 sec.)
• Size: 12 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 pamphlet (23 p. ; 12 cm.)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB03341235