Jacob van Eyck: Daphne Philis schoone Herderinne (François de Chancy - En vain je veux celer) Anthonello & Yoshimichi Hamada enchiriadis EN 2020 [65 mins] Jacob van Eyck (c.1590-1657) was a noted carrilonneur who is famous for his collection of 147 tunes The Flute's Garden of Delights from all over Europe, presented with ornamentation or variations (in current terminology); 'the last cultivator of the unadorned melody' (Raoul Mailavbarena). Yoshimichi Hamada is an extraordinarily gifted player of flutes and recorder (doubling on cornetto) and this is a wholly delectable sequence of pieces, some of them with accompaniments from his Japanese colleagueson viola da gamba, double harp, and various flutes/recorders in duet. He displays consummate ease on all the instruments, with a captivating freedom of expressive phrasing. Peter Grahame Woolf
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