The triumphs of Oriana.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

King's Singers (Vocal group), performer.

Contributor:

Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?

Series:

Colour of song

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Songs and music.

Elizabeth.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

Madrigals, English.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Sound recordings.

Madrigals (Music)

Songs.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Perivale, Mddx., United Kingdom : Signum Classics, [2006]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Hence, stars, too dim of light / Michael East (1:40)

With angel's face and brightness / Daniel Norcombe (2:05)

Lightly she whipped o'er the dales / John Mundy (2:57)

Long live fair Oriana / Ellis Gibbons (2:40)

All creatures now are merry-minded / John Bennet (1:54)

Fair Oriana, beauty's queen / John Hilton (2:02)

The nymphs and shepherds danced / George Marson (2:39)

Calm was the air and clear the sky / Richard Carlton (3:43)

Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated / John Holmes (2:29)

Sing, shepherds all, and in your roundelays / Richard Nicolson (3:27)

The fauns and satyrs tripping / Thomas Tomkins (4:23)

Come, gentle swains / Michael Cavendish (3:04)

With wreaths of rose and laurel / William Cobbold (2:08)

Arise, awake, awake / Thomas Morley (2:10)

Fair nymphs I heard one telling / John Farmer (2:23)

The lady Oriana / John Wilbye (2:23)

Hark! Did ye ever hear so sweet a singing? / Thomas Hunt (3:01)

As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending / Thomas Weelkes (3:02)

Fair Orion [i.e. Orian], in the morn / John Milton (2:13)

Round about her charret / Ellis Gibbons (2:27)

Bright Phoebus greets most clearly / George Kirbye (2:14)

Fair Oriana, seeming to wink at folly / Robert Jones (2:54)

Fair Cytherea presents her doves / John Lisley (3:38)

Hard by a crystal fountain / Thomas Morley

Come, blessed byrd / Edward Johnson (2:30).

Participant:

King's Singers: David Hurley, Nigel Short, countertenors ; Paul Phoenix, tenor ; Philip Lawson, Gabriel Crouch, baritones ; Stephen Connolly, bass.

Notes:

Madrigals for 5-6 voices, collected and published in 1601 by Thomas Morley.

Recorded at St. Osdag Church, Mandelsloh, Germany, Mar. 9-12, 1998.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Thomas Elias, biographical notes on the performers, and texts (15 p. : port.) inserted in container.

Contains:

East, Michael, approximately 1580-1648. Hence, stars, too dim of light.

Norcome, Daniel. With angel's face.

Mundy, John, -1630. Lightly she whipped o'er the dales.

Gibbons, Ellis. Long live fair Oriana.

Bennet, John, active 1599-1614. All creatures now are merry-minded.

Hilton, John, -approximately 1608. Fair Oriana, beauty's queen.

Marson, George. Nymphs and shepherds danced.

Carlton, Richard, approximately 1558-1638?. Calm was the air.

Holmes, John, -1629. Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated.

Nicolson, Richard, -1639. Sing shepherds all.

Tomkins, Thomas, 1572-1656. Fauns and satyrs tripping.

Cavendish, Michael, approximately 1565-1628. Come gentle swains (1601)

Cobbold, William. With wreaths of rose and laurel.

Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?. Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping.

Farmer, John, active 1591-1601. Faire nymphs I heard one telling.

Wilbye, John, 1574-1638. Lady Oriana.

Hunt, Thomas, 1580-1658. Hark! did you ever hear so sweet a singing.

Weelkes, Thomas, approximately 1575-1623. As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending.

Milton, John, approximately 1563-1647. Fair Orian.

Gibbons, Ellis. Round about her charret.

Kirbye, George, approximately 1565-1634. With angels face.

Jones, Robert, active 1597-1615. Fair Oriana seeming to wink at folly.

Lisley, John. Fair Cytherea presents her doves.

Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?. Hard by a cristall fountaine.

Johnson, Edward, active 1572-1601. Come, blessed bird.

OCLC:

84735184

Publisher Number:

635212008225

SIGCD082 Signum Classics