Songs / by Henry & William Lawes.

Format:

• Sound recording

Author/Creator:

• Blaze, Robin, performer.

Contributor:

• Kenny, Elizabeth, performer.

Language:

• English
• Italian

Subjects (All):

• Vocal trios, Unaccompanied.
• Songs (High voice) with lute.
• Songs (High voice) with theorbo.
• Lute music (Lutes (2)).
• Instrumental ensembles.
• Vocal trios with continuo.

Genre:

• Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
• 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

London : Hyperion, [2007]

Language Note:

Principally sung in English; the 14th sung in Italian.

System Details:

• digital
• optical
• 1.4 m/s
• stereo
• digital recording

Contents:

• Gather your rosebuds while you may / William Lawes
• A tale out of Anacreon ; Oh that joy so soon should waste ; Sweet, stay awhile; why do you rise? / Henry Lawes
• Monsieur Saman his coranto / René Saman
• Amarillis, by a spring / H. Lawes
• Oh, let me still and silent lie ; Oh, my Clarissa, thou cruel fair / W. Lawes
• From the heavn's now I fly / H. Lawes
• Corant from The royall consort / W. Lawes
• Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen / H. Lawes
• Country dance / W. Lawes
• Oh sweet woods, the delight of solitariness ; Tavola : In quel gelato core una voce ; Loves sweet repose : Amidst the myrtles as I walk ; No reprieve : Now, now, Lucasia, now make haste / H. Lawes
• Fantasia / Cuthbert Hely
• Slide soft, you silver floods / H. Lawes
• Saraband / C. Hely
• When shall I see my captive heart? / H. Lawes
• Alman for two lutes ; Corant for two lutes ; A dreame : I laid me down upon a pillow soft ; Corant for two lutes / W. Lawes
• The angler's song : Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain / H. Lawes
• When man of sin thy judgment feeds / W. Lawes
• A pastoral elegie : Cease you jolly shepherds / H. Lawes.

Participant:

Robin Blaze, countertenor ; Elizabeth Kenny, lute, theorbo ; with additional performers.

Notes:

• Principally songs for countertenor with lute or theorbo acc.; the 1st and 27th works for soprano, countertenor, and bass without and with lute and theorbo acc., respectively; the 5th, 12th, 17th and 19th for lute; the 10th for lute, theorbo, and double harp; the 11th for soprano and theorbo; the 21st-22nd and 24th for two lutes; the 23rd for bass and theorbo.
• Recorded May 3-5, 2006 in All Saints Church, East Finchley, London.
• Compact disc.
• Program and biographical notes, and song texts in English and Italian with English translation (14 p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Contains:

• Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662. Songs. Selections
• Lawes, William, 1602-1645. Works. Selections

OCLC:

85849921

Publisher Number:

• 034571175898
• 00034571175898
• CDA67589 Hyperion