Title:
English madrigals from The Oxford Book of English Madrigals [CD] : "Sing we at pleasure".
Corporate Author:
Added Author:
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
[Long Island City, N.Y.] : Alto, [2008].
Physical Description:
1 compact disc (64 min., 36 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
General Note:
Title from program booklet.
Partial reissue (22 of the original 35 madrigals) of the analog discs originally published by Peters International/Oxford University Press on PLE 133--PLE 134.
Program notes by Peter Avis inserted in container.
Performers:
Pro Cantione Antiqua ; Philip Ledger, director.
Contents:
Flora gave me fairest flowers / John Wilbye (1:17) -- O care, thou wilt dispatch me ; Hence care, thou art too cruel / Thomas Weelkes (4:09) -- Come away, sweet love / Thomas Greaves (1:29) -- Draw on, sweet night / Wilbye (4:52) -- Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone / John Farmer (1:37) -- Lullaby, my sweet little baby / William Byrd (4:24) -- O yes! has any found a lad? / Thomas Tomkins (1:50) -- Construe my meaning / Giles Farnaby (1:37) -- Adieu, sweet Amaryllis / Wilbye (2:11) -- Now is the month of Maying / Thomas Morley (1:58) -- The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons (1:22) -- See what a maze of error / George Kirbye (1:47) -- Too much I once lamented / Tomkins (5:54) -- Weep, weep, mine eyes / Wilbye (4:22) -- Sing we and chant it / Morley (1:45) -- What is our life? / Gibbons (4:09) -- Sing we at pleasure / Weelkes (1:59) -- Out from the vale of deep despair / John Ward (3:38) -- Weep o mine eyes / John Bennet (2:16) -- Quick, quick away, dispatch! / Michael East (3:12) -- Those sweet delightful lilies / Thomas Bateson (2:29) -- Sweet honey-sucking bees ; Yet, sweet, take heed / Wilbye (4:27).
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Language:
English
Added Title:
Oxford book of English madrigals