English keyboard composers in Tudor and Stuarttimes drew inspiration from the past, looking backto venerable contrapuntal forms to provide fecundmodels for new pieces.

Richard Egarr charts theextraordinary breadth of invention at play inworks by Byrd, Blow and Purcell. He crowns hisprogramme with two of Purcell’s virtuosic suitesand the mellifluous Ground in D minor.