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This year’s Festival theme is Engeland. We focus our attention on one of the sub-themes: the English virginalists.
Read more about this sub-theme on the website of the organisation of the Early Music Festival. 
Giles Farnaby (1563 – 1640): 
1. Fantasia MB no 12
2. Fantasia MB no 10
3. Fantasia MB no 6
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
(Universal Music B.V. 00028947605720, Accord 476 057-2, 2004) 
Peter Phillips (1560 – 1628) 
4. Amarilli mia bella
5. Chi farà fede al cielo
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
(Brilliant 94449, 2014) 
Martin Peerson (1572 – 1650 or 1651)
6. Primerose
7. The fall of the leafe
William Byrd (1540 – 1623)
8. La Volta
Marco Vitale, original Ruckers-spinet/virginal (built in 1604) by Giuseppe Accardi
(Ayros AY-RA 01)
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695)
9. Fantasia a 4 no 5, Z736, in B flat major
10. Fantasia a 4 no 6, Z737, in F major
11. Fantasia a 4 no 9, Z740, in A minor
Les Voix Humaines
(ATMA ACD2 2591, 2009)
Ferdinando Richardson (1558 – 1618)
12. Pavane and variation in D minor
13. Galliard and variation in D minor
Glen Wilson, harpsichord
(Naxos 8.572997, 2014)
William Inglot (1554–1621)
14. The Leaves Bee Greene
John Munday (1555 – 1630)
15. Goe from my window  
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
(Brilliant 94303, 2012)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621)
16. Ut re mi fa sol la, a 4
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
(Brilliant 94449, 2014)

Pictured: A virginal “à la quinte”, made in 1583 by Hans Ruckers from Antwerp. From the collection of the Musée de la Musique, Paris.