"A collection of the most celebrated English and Scots songs, neatly engrav'd and embelish'd with designs adapted to the subject of each song taken from the compositions of the best masters, in the most correct manner for all teachers, scholars and lovers of musick, rendering the undertaking more compleat than any thing of the kind ever publish'd"--page 3 of booklet. Subtitle from container. Emma Curtis, contralto ; The Frolick (Emma Curtis, contralto, director ; Andrew Maginley, baroque lute, baroque guitar, theorbo, director ; Markus MoĢllenbeck, baroque cello ; Giovanna Pessi, baroque harp ; Muriel Bardon and Natia Gvilava, baroque violins ; Annie Laflamme, transverse flute ; Martin Lynch, drum). Recorded December 15-16, 20, 22, 2005 and January 12, 2006, Herz Jesu Kirche, Stuttgart, Germany. Compact disc. Program notes in English, French and German, and texts with French and German translations (82 pages : illustrations, facsims.) in booklet.
Contents:
CD 1. Cupid and Venus / anon. (2:34) -- Celia has a thousand charms / Henry Purcell (4:55) -- The supplication / Henry Carey (1:29) -- A new song / anon. [Thomas Phillips] (2:11) -- A dialogue between Punch & Columbine / George Frideric Handel (3:40) -- The forsaken nymph / Henry Holcombe (6:42) -- A favorite aire in Ariadne / Handel (2:18) -- The coquet / John Frederick Lampe (1:40) -- A song to a favorite minuet of Geminiani's / Francesco Geminiani (1:05) -- The country girl's farewel / anon. (3:04) -- A favorite aire in Alcina / Handel (2:05) -- The early horn / John Ernest Galliard (4:57) -- Dying swan / George Monro (3:25) -- The charmer / Giovanni Battista Pescetti (2:15) -- The syren of the stage / Holcombe (2:38) -- Sad Musidora / Carey (1:53) -- The dying nymph / Lampe (2:29) -- Down the burn Davie / anon [J. Crawford] (5:14) -- The miller of Mansfield / Thomas Arne (2:39) -- The coquet / Sir John Vanbrugh (1:34) -- The forsaken maid (3:37) ; On Zelinda (1:46) / anon. -- The fly / Dr. Maurice Green (:45) -- My jolly companion / David Digard (1:45) -- Solitary lover / Lampe (5:25). CD 2. Oft on the troubled ocean / Galliard (2:08) -- The melancholly nymph / Handel (3:29) -- The lady's lamentation for the loss of Senesino / Carey (6:06) -- The wand'ring lover / Lampe (3:22) -- Linco's advice to Damon / anon. (1:44) -- Gen'rous love (1:44) ; The midsummer wish (4:09) / Carey -- A new cantata / Seignr Anglosini (2:08) -- The apology / anon. (2:49) -- Corn riggs are bonny / Allan Ramsay (2:27) -- A pastoral (1:24) ; The maid's husband (2:00) / Carey -- The plain dealer / Lampe (2:29) -- The generous confession / Digard (4:16) -- The despairing lover / anon. (2:17) -- Stand by! Clear the way! / Carey (1:36) -- True love / Green (3:27) -- The address to sleep / Jonathan Martin (2:16) -- England's lamentation for the loss of Farinelli / Henry Burgess (3:37) -- On gallant Moor of Moorhall / Lampe (1:44) -- Dumbarton's drums / anon. (2:32) -- A song / Carey (2:31) -- The maid's request / Lampe (1:53) -- The modest petition / William Boyce (1:30) -- The flea / Green (1:15) -- The thirsty toper / anon., possibly Boman/Bowman (4:21) -- The praise of Bacchus / Arcangello Corelli (3:02).
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