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Reviewer: Nicholas Anderson
“…
It has been rightly said that virginals music can be played on any instrument
that happens to be handy, though of course some pieces are better suited to one
instrument than to another. Yates has chosen a single-manual Italian
harpsichord, dating from the first half of the 17th century and housed in the
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She has chosen well, for its distinctive sound
beautifully assists the linear clarity of the music, especially rewarding in the
pieces by Peter Phillips and Domenico Zipoli, as well as preserving something of
the characteristic warmth of virginals. All-in-all this is a fascinating musical
journey, clearly and elegantly signposted by Yates’s accompanying notes …”
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