The lively and talented ensemble L’Art du Bois presents a new CD of musical treasures from the pens of the most varied composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all of whom worked in England.

Contents:
Anthony Holobrne
1. Almain
2. Corranto 'The Wanton'

Thomas Robinson
3. The schoole of musicke: Passamezzo Galyard

Tobias Hume
The First Part of Ayres or "Musicall Humors"
4. Fain would I change this note
5. Touch me lightly
6. What greater griefe

Thomas Simpson
7. Musica Britannica: Recercar

Jacob van Eyck
8. Variations on When Daphne from fair Phoebus did fly
9. Variations on Lachrimae Antiquae by John Dowland
 
John Dowland
10. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home

Masque Dances
11. Richard Nicholson: Jews Dance
12. Cuperaree or Grays Inn
13. The Apes Dance at the Temple
14. Tarletons Jig

Christopher Simpson
15. Divisions for treble viol, bass viol & keyboard III
16. Divisions for treble viol, bass viol & keyboard I

Henry Purcell
17. Three parts upon a ground, Chaconne in F

John Blow
18-19. Sonata No.3 in G major, Presto - Adagio - Presto

Nicola Matteis
20. Divisions

Francesco Corbetta
21. Varii Scherzi di Sonate: Prelude
22. La Guitarre Royalle: La Sarabande, Tombeau sur la mort de Madame d'Orleans

Henry Purcell
23. Passacaille: Two in one upon a ground. Chaconne for two flutes on a ground from Diocletian