This wide-ranging anthology offers performers and scholars both a musical context for the keyboard works of Henry Purcell and a generous selection of fascinating repertoire from the period. All the selected music is of fine quality, and the works published here either for the first time, or for the first time in modern editions, include harpsichord suites by John Blow, Albertus Bryne, John Cobb, Giovanni Battista Draghi and Francis Forcer, a setting of Lully’s Scocca Pur, and organ verses and vo...

Composers: Albertus Bryne, Daniel Henstridge, Davis Mell, Francis Forcer, Jean Baptiste Lully, John Blow, John Cobb, John Hingeston, John Lenton, Matthew Locke, Nicholas-Antoine Lebègue, Orlando Gibbons, Robert Smith, Thomas Farmer