Greene: Overtures & Lessons; Boyce: Voluntaries

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
July 17, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Boyce, Maurice Greene
    • PERFORMER
      Fernando De Luca
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 17, 2026
    • UPC
      5063758976374
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97637
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    3. III. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    4. I. Con spirito

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    5. II. Allegro - Andante

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    6. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    7. I. Con spirito

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    8. II. Allegro assai

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    9. III. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    10. I. Con spirito

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    11. II. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    12. III. Moderato

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    13. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    14. II. Andante vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    15. III. Presto

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    16. I. Con spirito

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    17. II. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    18. III. Moderato

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    19. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    20. II. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    21. III. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    22. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    23. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    24. II. Andante

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    25. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    26. I. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    27. II. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    28. III. Gavotta

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    29. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    30. II. Gigue

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    31. III. Presto

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    32. IV. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    33. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    34. II. Andante vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    35. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    36. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    37. II. Minueto: Allegro - Vivace (da capo)

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    38. I. Molto allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    39. II. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    40. III. Andante

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    41. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    42. A Collection of Lessons: Lesson 8 in D Minor: I. Aria con variationi

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    43. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    44. II. Andante

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    45. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    46. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    47. II. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    48. III. Molto allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    49. I. Aria con variationi

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    50. II. Andante

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    51. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    52. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    53. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    54. II. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    55. III. Aria con variationi

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    56. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    57. II. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    58. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    59. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    60. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    61. II. Vivace

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    62. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    63. I. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    64. II. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    65. III. Allegro

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    66. Voluntary No. 1 in A Major

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    67. Voluntary No. 2 in F Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    68. Voluntary No. 3 in A Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    69. Voluntary No. 4 in G Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    70. Voluntary No. 5 in G Major

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    71. Voluntary No. 6 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    72. Voluntary No. 7 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    73. Voluntary No. 8 in C Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    74. Voluntary No. 9 in E Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    75. Voluntary No. 10 in D Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    76. Voluntary No. 11 in B Minor

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca

    77. Voluntary No. 12 in E Major

      Composer: William Boyce

      Performer: Fernando de Luca


A first-ever complete recording for keyboard collections which capture the elegance and cosmopolitan style of Georgian-era English music. Maurice Greene (1696-1755) belongs to the generation that followed Henry Purcell and preceded Handel. Becoming organist of St Paul's Cathedral in 1719, and in 1735 organist and composer to the Chapel Royal, he wrote a good deal of church music which is still in use today: memorably simple but effective anthems such as Thou visitest the earth and Lord, let me know mine end. Much less well known-and most of it previously unrecorded-is Greene's corpus of instrumental music. Published in 1745, his Six Overtures in Seven Parts alternate a slow and solemn French-style overture with fugal allegros and elegant dance movements such as minuets, gavottes, or airs. The original orchestral scores have recently attracted a recording: Fernando de Luca has made his own arrangements for solo harpsichord, following a long-standing practice and retaining the essential exuberance of the overtures while inflecting them with refined dynamic shading. Rarer still are the 15 keyboard "Lessons": Italianate suites which bear witness to a transition from the contrapuntal Baroque style to a more galant idiom, under the influence of Italian exemplars such as Corelli and Geminiani, as well as the seductive charms of French culture which captivated the upper end of Georgian society and culture. William Boyce (1711-1779) studied with Greene and followed in the footsteps of his teacher by attaining the same distinguished posts at St Paul's and the Chapel Royal. Again principally known for his church music, he also wrote a collection of overtures which have retained popularity on the fringes of the catalogue. His Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (published posthumously in London, c. 1779) represent one of the final great expressions of the genre in their refined counterpoint and graceful harmonies. "Harpsichordist Fernando de Luca does a splendid job," remarked Fanfare magazine in a review of the Brilliant Classics album dedicated to the music of Pierre-Claude Foucquet: one of many comprehensive collections through which de Luca has revived lesser-known composers of the eighteenth century. This volume of Boyce and Greene stands as a notable addition to the library.