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Had this in my collection for a while, thank you for reminding me 
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Thanks to @Stephane for pointing out the new release with/by David Linx… His ‘Brel’ album is from 2016… The All About Jazz reviewer’s mention of the incomprehensible gallic lyrics just made me LOL…
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Inspiring album cover, Ged!
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I keep quoting this album the past few days so I guess I need to play it.
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Some time ago I posted young Benjamin Alard’s superb 2008 album with pieces for harpsichord from the Bauyn manuscript, which is kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. I think that I was under the impression that Alard’s was the first recording of pieces from this manuscript. This is not the case, as the English harpsichordist Jane Chapman’s three volumes of pieces from this manuscript are from 1994, and there probably are even older recordings.
Yesterday @Traian_Boldea posted Giulia Nuti’s most recent album with English Renaissance pieces played on the Rucellai virginal, an instrument built around 1590 and found in the 1980s in the attics of Palazzo Rucellai at Florence, Italy. And five years ago, miss Nuti recorded and released another album with music played on an historic instrument—the Louis Denis harpsichord from 1658. And on that album the programming is consistent with the instrument, namely pieces from the Bauyn manuscript, composed and transcribed during the first half of the 17th century.
The playing is masterly, and what a treat it is being able to appreciate the sound of such old instruments.
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I can’t recommend this wonderful album too much. Giulia Nuti’s playing is masterly, and the sound of this instrument from around 1590 absolutely surprising. Luckily the recording quality is such that it sits us listeners straight at the keyboard on the musician’s stool.
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