Albertus Bryne: Keyboard Music (2007)

Albertus Bryne (or, if his name were updated to modern English usage, "Bryan") was a contemporary of Matthew Locke, though he might have been a little older -- his exact birthdate is unknown. He is also said to have been the first English composer to organize his little dance movements into suites, an observation that seems a bit more out of convenience for defining his import than direct evidence. Locke's keyboard suites cannot be accurately dated and several appear in the same posthumous publication, Musick's Hand-Maid, ... Read More

Albertus Bryne (or, if his name were updated to modern English usage, "Bryan") was a contemporary of Matthew Locke, though he might have been a little older -- his exact birthdate is unknown. He is also said to have been the first English composer to organize his little dance movements into suites, an observation that seems a bit more out of convenience for defining his import than direct evidence. Locke's keyboard suites cannot be accurately dated and several appear in the same posthumous publication, Musick's Hand-Maid, which also transmits the Suite in A minor that is the first heard on Deux-Elles' Albertus Bryne: Keyboard Music. Keyboardist Terence Charlston has prepared an integral edition of Bryne's keyboard corpus, and though the disc isn't called "complete," this certainly accounts for all of it -- eight suites, an organ voluntary, and two fugitive pieces. Charlston usefully adds a small selection of works by others -- John Bull, Christopher Gibbons, and some anonymous works -- to help place... Read Less

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