The King's Consort (Barbara Bonney, Susan Gritton, sopranos ; James Bowman, countertenor ; Rogers Covey-Crump, Charles Daniels, tenors ; Michael George, bass ; Mark Caudle, bass viol ; David Miller, archlute/theorbo ; Robert King, chamber organ/harpsichord). Recorded Sept. 28-Oct. 6, 1993 and March 28-29, 1994. Compact discs. Program notes in English by Robert King and vocal texts (63 pages : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents:
CD 1. Draw near, you lovers (4:27) -- While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep (2:12) -- Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind (5:17) -- I loved fair Celia (1:50) -- What hope for us remains now he is gone? (3:02) -- Pastora's beauties when unblown (2:23) -- A thousand sev'ral ways I tried (0:45) -- Urge me no more (3:11) -- Farewell, all joys (1:28) -- If music be the food of love (1:55) -- Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams (3:37) -- They say you're angry (2:30) -- Let each gallant heart (1:48) -- This poet sings the Trojan wars (Anacreon's defeat) (4:06) -- Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love (1:15) -- My heart, whenever you appear (1:46) -- On the brow of Richmond Hill (1:34) -- Rashly I swore I would disown (1:05) --Since the pox or the plague (1:24) -- Beneath a dark and melancholy grove (3:39) -- Musing on cares of human fate (2:11) -- Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still (1:56) -- How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain (0:28) -- Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind (1:48) -- Beware, poor shepherds (1:29) -- See how the fading glories of the year (2:52) -- Cease anxious world, your fruitless pain (2:19) -- O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes (5:16). CD 2. I love and I must ("Bell Barr") (2:53) -- When her languishing eyes said 'Love!' (0:55) -- Not all my torments can your pity move (2:28) -- Ah! cruel nymph! (2:35) -- Sylvia, now your scorn give over (0:30) -- Since one poor view has drawn my heart (0:34) -- I resolve against cringing and whining (0:56) -- Gentle shepherds, you that know (6:08) -- If grief has any pow'r to kill (1:37) -- She that would gain a faithful lover (2:23) -- Fly swift, ye hours (5:17) -- Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song') (2:31) -- Phillis, talk no more of passion (2:02) -- Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her (1:42) -- In vain we dissemble (2:14) -- When my Aemelia smiles (2:08) -- Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands (3:14) -- What a sad fate is mine (2:43) -- I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams (1:49) -- Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance (0:40) -- How delightful's the life of an innocent swain (2:19) -- She, who my poor heart possesses (1:45) -- Love arms himself in Celia's eyes (2:53) -- When first my shepherdess and I (1:26) -- Through mournful shades and solitary groves (3:21) -- If music be the food of love (Second version) (1:58) -- Scarce had the rising sun appear'd (1:03) -- Who but a slave can well express (2:06) -- High on a throne of glitt'ring ore (5:15) -- Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium') (7:55). CD 3. She loves and she confesses too (2:23) -- Amintas, to my grief I see (1:33) -- Corinna is divinely fair (1:46) -- Amintor, heedless of his flocks (2:24) -- He himself courts his own ruin (1:10) -- No, to what purpose shoud I speak? (4:21) -- Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair (1:40) -- Lovely Albina's come ashore (2:24) -- Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love (0:58) -- If music be the food of love (Third version) (3:45) -- Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it (0:36) -- Bacchus is a pow'r divine (0:36) -- From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') (4:13) -- Let formal lovers still pursue (1:07) -- I came, I saw, and was undone (4:33) -- Who can behold Florella's charms? (2:06) -- Cupid, the slyest rogue alive (2:26) -- If pray'rs and tears (7:36) -- In Cloris all soft charms agree (2:29) -- Let us, kind Lesbia, give away (1:25) -- Love is now become a trade (1:06) -- Ask me to love no more (1:35) -- O solitude, my sweetest choice! (5:32) -- Olinda in the shades unseen (1:02) -- Pious Celinda goes to prayes (1:01) -- When Strephon found his passion vain (1:07) -- The fatal hour comes on apace (3:47) -- Sawney is a bonny lad (1:50) -- Young Thirsis' fate (5:49).
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