Elizabethan Lute Songs

Various Artists

CD1

  1. O mistress mine
  2. Take, O take those lips away
  3. Gray’s Inn Masque
  4. Wilson’s Wild
  5. The Willow Song
  6. Melancholy Galliard
  7. Full fathom five
  8. Where the bee sucks
  9. Care-charming sleep
  10. Eliza is the fairest queen
  11. The noble famous queen
  12. Gaiarda la Royne d’Escosse
  13. The Queen’s Galliard
  14. Miserere my Maker
  15. Away with these self-loving lads
  16. Lasso vita mia
  17. Mr George Whitehead his Almand
  18. Now, O now I needs must part
  19. In darkness let me dwell
  20. Se l’aura spira
  21. Morto son io
  22. Fantasia for lute
  23. Tortorella
  24. So ben mi ch’a bon tempo

     

CD2

  1. Symphony: Largo – Allegro – Adagio
  2. Come ye Sons of Art
  3. Sound the trumpet
  4. Come ye Sons of Art
  5. Strike the viol 4:50 Countertenor II
  6. The day that such a blessing gave
  7. Bid the Virtues
  8. These are the sacred charms
  9. See Nature, rejoicing
  10. Symphony
  11. Love’s goddess sure
  12. Those eyes, that form
  13. Sweetness of Nature
  14. Long may she reign
  15. May her blest example chase
  16. Many such days
  17. May she to Heaven
  18. As much as we below shall mourn

 

 

Countertenor James Bowman (b.1941) enjoyed a long association with early English song, an interest which bore fruit with this 1972 recording of Elizabethan lute songs, here making its first appearance on CD. Together with the lutenist Robert Spencer, Bowman arranged the programme to reflect the repertory of the theatre and court and the career of John Dowland, with a final homage to Italy, the cradle of early song. The recordings of Purcell’s Birthday Odes date from 1975. Between 1689 and 1694, Henry Purcell produced an annual ode for the celebration of Queen Mary’s birthday. The last and best known is Come, Ye Sons of Art, which drew on the composer’s recent successes in the theatre by employing a larger orchestra than usual (with trumpets, oboes and recorders) and giving the chorus a more prominent role.

 

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