Double-manual harpsichord (4316), Robert Falkener, London, 1773
G.F. Handel (1685 -1759)
Suite in D minor HWV 437 (1733)
1.Prelude (1 MB)
2.Allemande
3.Courante
4. Sarabande (avec doubles)
5.Gigue
Bentside spinet (4309)
attrib. John Player, London, c. 1705
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Five pieces from Musick's Handmaid (1689)
6.March
7.Minuet
8. A new Ground
9. A new Scotch Tune
10. A new Irish Tune
Bentside spinet (4313), John Harrison, London, 1757
Three pieces from Robert Bremner's
The Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany (1765)
11. Fy gar rub her o'er with Straw
12. The Flowers of the Forrest (1 MB)
13. Maggy Lauder:
Enharmonic virginal (4345), attrib. Francesco Poggio, Florence, c. 1620
Michelangelo Rossi (1601/2-1656)
14. Toccata settima (Toccate e corenti d'intavolatura d'organo e cimbalo, 1657)
Chamber organ (4327), anonymous, London?, c. 1680
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
15. A sad Pavan for these distracted times
John Blow (1649-1708)
16. Voluntary in C
Fretted clavichord (4338), Christian Gottlob Hubert, Ansbach, 1784
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
Five pieces from Musikalische Nebenstunden (1787- 88)
17.Marche
18.Menuet
19.Adagio
20.Andante
21.Marche
Square piano (4325), Andrew Rochead, Edinburgh, c. 1815
Franz Xaver Mozart (1791-1844)
Deux Polonaises mélancoliques
22. No. 1 in C minor
23. No. 2 in A minor
Double-manual harpsichord (4329), Jean Goermans/Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1764/83- 84
Armand-Louis Couperin (1727-1789)
24. Les Tendres Sentimens
25. L'Affligée
26. L'Enjouée
Single-manual harpsichord (4314), Johann Adolph Hass, Hamburg, 1764
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Four movements from Partita in E major 'November' (1722)
27.Praeludium
28.Menuet
29.Gavotte
30.Chaconne (1.1 MB)

Known collectively as the Raymond Russell collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, this company of harpsichords, virginals, spinets, organs and fortepianos is one of the most important of its kind in the world today. Resident keyboard expert John Kitchen puts another nine instruments through their paces in a recital that is both entertaining and illuminating ‘performances are stylish and sympathetic and the music and instruments are beautifully matched’ – The Gramophone ‘To have them played by John Kitchen is simply the icing on the cake.’ – Scotland on Sunday