Courante (Suite 8 in d minor) - Matthew Locke (1621-1677)

This Courante comes from the same suite as the Ayre. After the reign of Charles I and during the Restoration in 1660, Locke was one of the main composers of England, because most others composers had either retired or had died in the years between the reign of Charles I (until 1649) and his son Charles II (from 1660 on). Locke mostly wrote consort music, either for equal instruments or “broken consort“, instruments of different kinds. He probably mostly wrote them in the years between the two reigns, the Interregnum, when domestic chamber and consort music was most popular, although he revised them in later years. MUSICKES DELIGHT Lobke Sprenkeling - tenor recorder Óscar Gallego - viola da gamba Pedro Jesús Gómez - archlute Musickes Delight is an ensemble dedicated to the interpretation of music mainly focussing on English and French Renaissance and Baroque music, and was founded in Madrid. In its combination of recorder/voice, viola da gamba and archlute