American pianist and composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of Elizabethan England. For his first album on Deutsche Grammophon, Kit Armstrong presents works by two composers who elevated instrumental music to new heights of refinement in the Golden Age of Elizabeth I and her successor James I.

‘Perhaps even more taxing is the intellectual challenge of this music, which can easily sound merely intellectual if performed without fantasy and imagination. Armstrong brings abundant quantities of both to his entirely satisfying rendering of the sometimes austere and eccentric Bull and the amiable and elegant Byrd on the modern piano.’ - Gramophone