Christopher Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & Ot

Christopher Simpson (c.1606-1669) The Winter (Fancy; Aire; Galliard; Divisions in a; January; February; March; Prélude; Minuritiones septimae: divisions in c); The Spring (Fancy; Ayre; Divisions in G; April, May; June); Sujet...«à divertir»...(Marin Marais)

Son of a shoemaker, Simpson composed pieces for the viol in all the styles prevalent in English viol music in the 17th century. He was also a revered theoretician. His book “The Division-Violist” (London 1659) was highly praised. The Late Sophie Watillon conveys the fantasy and imagination of the improvising violist in seventeenth-century England