L’Arpicordo

Released in 2009, this album explores music for the arpicordo. “Arpicordo” was the word used in sixteenth-century Italy to describe the polygonal virginal, and many volumes of printed music, particularly those in the Venetian keyboard ballo tradition (Facoli, Radino, Picchi) use the term. This album was recorded on three historic instruments of the Benton Fletcher collection, at Fenton House, London: the Siculus virginals (Sicily, 1540), the Pratensis virginals (Prato, early seventeenth century), and an anonymous Italian harpsichord (c.1590).

This album is out of print, but you can download the liner notes here.