Jonathan’s latest recording explores a new Pavane & Galliard by Robert Saxton. As with the recent Cooke upload, this performance explores the expressive potential of incorporating aspects of Renaissance technique and style into a Tudor-inspired composition, playing with the tension between the expectations of the genre and contemporary elements. The resulting recording aims to make the listener aware of how we ‘hear’ musical history and rely on it for our imaginative sense of the past.

“The atmosphere intended/implied is as though we are hearing (and sensing) two spectral dances. I imagined them being danced by a Tudor couple who, perhaps, have emerged from a portrait in a Norfolk stately home and ‘taken to the floor’ at night, before the National Trust/English Heritage open the doors the next morning!” (Robert Saxton, November 2025)