Divisions on a Ground
Bellfounder Records, September 2025
Adjoa Mensah, viola da gamba
Kiran Iyer, theorbo
Bess Whitlock, hurdy-gurdy
Theo Bankole, sackbut
Grounds and their divisions, 1553–1685: Ortiz's recercadas beside the ballad sets that borrowed their basses, taped in one week in the Blackfriars undercroft with the room's echo left in.
Recercadas
Ortiz — Recercada primera on La Spagna
Ortiz — Recercada segunda
Anon. — Divisions on the same ground, from the Vervain Dance Book
Ayres and grounds
Dowland — Lachrimae antiquae, set for broken consort
Holborne — The Night Watch
Playford — Sets from The Dancing Master, with divisions
Chamber Choice — The Early Music Ledger
“The rare early-music record that treats its sources as living tunes rather than laboratory specimens.”
The Early Music Ledger, on Divisions on a Ground
Listen Buy the CD Radio Meridian broadcast — Divisions on a Ground (mp3)
