Music for Shakespeare’s Theatre
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Label: Naxos
Cat No: 8570708
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 31st March 2008
Contents
Artists
Gerald Place (tenor)Dorothy Linell (lute)
Rebecca Hickey (soprano)
Artists
Gerald Place (tenor)Dorothy Linell (lute)
Rebecca Hickey (soprano)
About
Here are thirty or so settings from Shakespeare’s lifetime by composers including Morley, Johnson, Dowland, Byrd, Ferrabosco and others, including lyrics set to ballad tunes that would have been very familiar to the actors in his company.
Contents:
Country Matters:
- Hark, hark! the lark
- When daffodils begin to peer
- When daisies pied; Fortune
- Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
- Lawn as white as driven snow
- Kemp’s Jig
- Callino
- It was a lover and his lass
- When that I was;
This Music Mads Me:
- How should I your true love know?
- Bonny, Sweet Robin
- Tomorrow is St Valentine’s day
- And will he not come again?
- In youth when I did love
- Tarleton’s Resurrection
- Hey, jolly Robin
- The poor soul sat sighing (Willow Song)
Seals of Love:
- O mistress mine
- Come away death
- Divisions on Greensleeves
- Farewell dear heart
- Packington’s Pound
- Take, O take those lips away
- O sweet Oliver
- Light o’ Love
- Who is Sylvia?
- The Sick Tune
- Sigh no more ladies
- Come live with me
Music’s Lore:
- When griping grief
- O death rock me asleep
- Heartsease
- You spotted snakes
- The woozel cock
- Full fathom five
- My Lady Hunsdon’s Puff
- Where the bee sucks
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