more Elizabethan piano

This has been a topic of broader interest here in the not so distant
past, although perhaps most of those interested have lapsed in the
interim....

Anyway, there's a new release by Mishka Rushdie Momen on Hyperion,
and it may be the most idiomatic-sounding piano recital of this
music yet....  The Hyperion liner notes are all available online,
and she wrote her own, discussing both the individual pieces (& the
general history) & her approach to piano.  The latter sounds good,
but isn't very concrete.  However, the (concrete) result is quite
good, with a real lightness & control of articulation.  (This may
involve leaving out some notes in favor of pedals at times....)

Listening to the program for me, I'm pretty quickly feeling a real
connection with the Byrd Prelude/Fantasia pair (BK12/13), although
not every selection is my favorite.  The "biggest" piece here is
Bull's _Walsingham_ variations, a study in odd rhythms & resulting
textures (Sorabji before Sorabji?) that's handled relatively well....
The lighter "character" pieces are also especially coherent, charming
being an apt term perhaps....  (But there's also plenty of melancholy
in the program.)

PS. Pace an earlier thread on the Byrd anniversary last year, while
there was a welcome (updated) rendering of his _Psalmes, Sonets &
Songs of Sadnes and Pietie_ (1588) by Alamire, there has yet to be
a corresponding update for _Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets_ (1611) --
which has been warranted for some time....  (These Consort of Musicke
albums are quite dated at this point, and the latter was never their
best anyway.)