I am interested in a myriad of subjects, from antique arms and armour, philology and motor bikes (but too old now...) to genealogy[1][2], antique British silverware and cooking (historical and modern), but the following often take precedence in my life:
: ... the keyboard music written in England from about 1580 to 1625 had no equal anywhere for gravity and brilliance, for learned ease or for sweet melancholy. It is simply one of the imaginative summits of Western art, a brief miracle, challenging in its technical demands and utterly satisfying in its hold on the ear and the mind.
