Musical Diaries
Donald Macleod looks at some of the great diarists of the musical world. 2: Samuel Pepys. Pepys kept his diary during the early years of the Restoration. He wrote it in shorthand to keep it secret from prying eyes.
What he left is not so much a record of events - such as the Plague and the Great Fire of London - as a re-creation of them. It is one of the most vivid accounts of any historical period, made all the more engaging because Pepys himself was no saint. Including excerpts from: Locke Suite in G minor
Parley of Instruments
Tomkins Barafostus 's Dream
Sophie Yates (virginals)
Humfrey 0 Give Thanks unto the Lord Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, conductor Nicholas McGegan