Jetzt ist es aber auch gut mit Rameau und all dieser ultramodernen Musik .... Gehen wir zu den Virginalisten. Esfahani versüßt uns den Gang mit einem klanggewaltigen Cembalo nach dem Hamburger Cembalobauer Fleischer ...
Musik von Thomas Tomkins, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons Giles Farnaby
William Byrd, Richard Farnaby, John Bull, William Inglot und dem sehr beliebten Anonymus
Mahan Esfahani, Cembalo
AD: 2017, Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate
Esfahani zitiert im Booklet den englischen Dichter und Philosophen Thomas Browne
Zitat von Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Our hard entrance into the World, our miserable going out of it, our sicknesses, disturbances, and sad Rencounters in it, do clamorously tell us we come not into the World to run a Race of Delight, but to perform the sober Acts and serious purposes of Man—which to omit were foully to miscarry in the advantage of humanity, to play away an uniterable Life, and to have lived in vain. Forget not the capital end, and frustrate not the opportunity of once Living. Dream not any kind of metempsychosis or transanimation, but into thine own body, and that after a long time, and then also unto wail or bliss, according to thy first and fundamental Life. Upon a curricula in this World depends a long course of the next, and upon a narrow Scene here an endless expansion hereafter. In vain some think to have an end of their Beings with their Lives. Things cannot get out of their natures, or be or not be in despite of their constitutions. Rational existences in Heaven perish not at all, and but partially on Earththat which is thus once will in some way be alwaysthe first living human Soul is still alive, and all Adam hath found no Period.
In diesem Sinne allen Taminos eine schlaflose Nacht! 
Henri Dutilleux
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