Henry Purcell: The English Opheus CD, Colin Booth, harpsichord, spinet Like New

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Description:

Colin Booth plays two instruments, a harpsichord he built in 2003 and based on an 18th-century German instrument, brass strung, and "distinctly related to surviving early English examples," Booth writes. The other instrument is a spinet Booth built in 2004 as a copy of an anonymous Italian spinet of the same period. He writes that it, "has a similar timbre to some English examples, but a particularly resonant quality . . . it belies its sonority: it is only just over a metre long." The works are:

Round 0, Z. T684

Suite in D Minor, Z. 668: Almand, Corant, Hornpipe

Air, Z. T676

Ground, Z. D222

Suite in D Major, Z. 667: Prelude, Almand, Hornpipe

Suite in G Major, Z. 662: Prelude, Almand, Corant

A New Scotch Tune, Z. 655

Suite in G Major, Z. 660: Prelude, Almand, Corant, Minuet

A New Irish Tune, Z. 646

Ground, Z. 645

Suite in C Major, Z. 666: Prelude, Almand, Corant, Saraband

Rigadoon, Z. 653

Song Tune, Z. T694

Trumpet Tune (Cibell), Z. T678

Suite in G Minor, Z. 663: Prelude, Almand, Corant, Saraband

Air, Z. T693/2

Minuets I and II, Z. 649 and 650

Suite in F Major, Z. 669: Prelude, Almand, Courante, Minuet

Air, Z. 630/1

Round 0, Z. T684

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