Orpheus with His Lute - Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne /(English Orpheus, Vol 50) /Bott * Brown * The Parley of Instruments * Holman

Deserves Applause!

Hyperion 67450 (2003) Spars: DDD

Peter Holman directs the Parley of Instruments featuring Rachel Brown on flute and soprano Catherine Bott in a recording of music composed for performances of Shakespeare's plays by a variety of English composers.

"The Parley of Instruments, Rachel Brown, director Peter Holman and the Hyperion recording team all deserve applause." (Gramophone)

The works on this recording:

1. Overture to Titus Andronicus: Overture
Composed by Jeremiah Clarke (c1674-1707)

2. Overture to Titus Andronicus: Minuet
Composed by Jeremiah Clarke

3. Take, O take those lips away
John Weldon (1676-1736)

4. Can life be a blessing?
John Eccles (c1668-1735)

5. Pardon, goddess of the night
Thomas Chilcot (c1707-1766)

6. Orpheus with his lute
Maurice Greene (1696-1755)

7. Orpheus with his lute
Thomas Chilcot

8. Hark, hark, the lark
Thomas Chilcot

9. To fair Fidele's grassy tomb
Thomas Arne (1710-1778)

10. 10. Concerto No 9 in E minor
Robert Woodcock (1690-1728)

11. When daisies pied and violets blue
Richard Leveridge (1670-1758)

12. When daisies pied and violets blue
Thomas Arne

13. When icicles hang on the wall
Thomas Arne

14. You spotted snakes
John Christopher Smith (1712-1795)

15. Full fathom five
John Christopher Smith

16. All fancy sick
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)

17. Dry those eyes which are o'erflowing
John Weldon

18. Dear pretty youth
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

19. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing
Thomas Arne

20. Where the bee sucks, there lurk I
Thomas Arne July 19, 2005

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