Excerpts from operas and incidental music. "Music composed, adapted and arranged for Shakespeare productions at Covent Garden, 1816-1821"--Container. Musicians of the Globe ; Philip Pickett, conductor. Recorded at All Saints, Tooting, London, Sept. 1996. "Based on an edition prepared by Michael Pilkington from Bishop's full conducting score, preserved in the British Library." Previously released as compact disc: Philips: 456-506-2. Compact disc. Program notes , detailed personnel, and program notes ([8] pages) included.
Contents:
A comedy of errors. Lo! here the gentle lark (4:32) -- A midsummer night's dream. Welcome to this place (2:27) -- Two gentlemen of Verona. Should he upbraid (4:32) -- Twelfth night. Who is Sylvia? What is she? / after Thomas Ravenscroft and Thomas Morley (2:36) -- Two gentlemen of Verona. That time of year (3:07) -- Twelfth night. When that I was a little tiny boy (3:24) -- A comedy of errors. Come live with me and be my love (3:59) -- A midsummer night's dream. Hark, hark, each Spartan hound (1:37) -- Two gentlemen of Verona. Oh! never say that I was false of heart (4:17) ; Who is Sylvia? What is she? (3:42) -- A comedy of errors. Sing willow (3:18) ; It was a lover and his lass (3:01) ; Under the greenwood tree / after Thomas Arne (4:01) ; Take, oh! take those lips away (3:08) -- A midsummer night's dream. Flower of this purple dye / after J.C. Smith (2:00) -- Two gentlemen of Verona. Now the hungry lions roar (2:17) -- Twelfth night. Orpheus with his lute (4:48) -- A comedy of errors. Come, thou monarch of the vine (3:08) -- A midsummer night's dream. Spirits advance (6:14).
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