Description

Richard Jones, the orchestra leader at London's Drury Lane Theatre, composed three works, but only one focused on keyboard music. Published around 1732, his Suits or Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet is the sole surviving keyboard composition from Jones.

The various pieces selected from these suites for this album are particularly tuneful, providing an invaluable compendium of 18th-century dance forms and rhythms.

Songs / Content

• 1. Allemanda in A (from Suite No. 2)
• 2. Allemande in G (from Suite No. 6)
• 3. Bouree in A minor (from Suite No. 4)
• 4. Boree in Bb (from Suite No. 3)
• 5. Brisk Air in G (from Suite No. 6)
• 6. Gavot in D minor (from Suite No. 1)
• 7. Gavote in G (from Suite No. 6)
• 8. Giga in A (from Suite No. 2)
• 9. Giga in A minor (from Suite No. 4)
• 10. Minuet in D minor (from Suite No. 1)
• 11. Sarabanda in B minor (I from Suite No. 5)
• 12. Sarabanda in B minor (II from Suite No. 5)
• 13. Sarabanda in Bb (from Suite No. 3)
• 14. Sarabanda in D minor (from Suite No. 1)
• 15. Scotch Air in F (from Suite No. 6)
• 16. Giga in D minor (from Suite No. 1) [Trad. French]