Re: more Elizabethan piano

On 7/7/2024 2:21 PM, Todd M. McComb wrote:

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....

[snip]

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.)

I guess Bull intrinsically remains more piano-portable than Byrd or Gibbons or most of the Fitzwilliam composers for that matter. And the virtuosic Walsingham in particular have been recorded quite successfully by Kit Armstrong in 2020 at the piano, although Rampe in 2004 (at the harpsichord) remains my top recommendation for this particular piece. Talking abut melancholy, Kit Armstrong 2020 rendering of the Melancholy Pavane MB67a by Bull is pretty special and possibly the highlight of that album.