The Fitzwilliam Collection
Sophie Yates is at the Fitzwilliam Museum exploring a priceless collection of manuscripts.
The Early Music Show · BBC Radio 3
January 27, 201928m 40s
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Show Notes
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is home to a priceless collection of manuscripts bequeathed to the university by the extraordinary 18th-century polymath, the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam.
Harpsichordist Sophie Yates visits the museum to explore the life and legacy of Fitzwilliam, whose now-famous Virginal Book is considered to be the primary source for late Elizabethan and early Jacobean keyboard music.