Ferries / De Visee / Corbetta - Royalle: Music For Kings & Courtiers - Music CD

Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Gordon Ferries's latest, eagerly-awaited solo recital for Delphian spans two centuries of music with Royal connections - from the chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France's cultivated humanist courts and the exquisitely melancholy dance-forms heard in the private chambers of Versailles, to the extraordinary place of guitar music in the decadence, sexual intrigue and Baroque splendour of Restoration England. The Italian-born composer and guitarist Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) served both Charles II and his cousin Louis XIV, and his music provides a common thread.