Kenny, a highly regarded recitalist, chamber musician and continuo-player, has made a representative selection from each of the Jacobean manuscript’s five major types of pieces – pavans, galliards, courantes, almains and miscellaneous song and dance tunes or grounds – and grouped them into musically satisfying pseudo-suites.

So a dark “pavin” by Robert Johnson or Antony Holborne might be lit by a jaunty song tune such as Tom of Bedlam or an anonymous “corant”; John Dowland’s Battle Galliard is echoed elsewhere by The Battle, again by that most prolific of composers, Anon; a stolid “allmayne” is teased by a sprightly “volte”.

The listener is thus able to savour the individual qualities of each work while finding additional pleasure in the numerous correspondences and differences that pervade the collection – all the while marvelling not only at Kenny’s acute sense of local colour, form and texture but also her considerable technical prowess, the latter especially obvious in the profuse ornamentation and extended divisions throughout.

In her booklet-notes Kenny says the ML Lutebook, being as it is in 15 different hands, is “a collaborative volume par excellence”. Although her musical collaborators here are long dead, we could just as easily say the same of this highly enjoyable disc.