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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

J. Burton | 03/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Tenor John Mark Ainsley with Timothy Roberts on harpsichord, spinet & chamber organ and Paula Chateauneuf on theorbo and baroque guitar, in an award-winning recording of eighteen songs and keyboard works by John Blow (1649-1708).



"Full of interest, rich in its varied pleasures and in the high standard of recording and performance" (Gramophone)



The works on this recording:



1. No more, the dear, lovely nymph's no more song with theorbo and organ

2. Prelude in G spinet solo

3. The self-banish'd (A Minuet) song with theorbo

4. Lovely Selina, innocent and free song with spinet and guitar

5. Morlake Ground spinet solo

6. O turn not those fine eyes away song with harpsichord

7. Sett (Suite) No 1 in D minor (Almand - [Tune] - Tune [Gavott] - Jigg) harpsichord solo

8. Fairest work of happy Nature song with theorbo

9. Flavia grown old song with harpsichord

10. Ground in G minor spinet solo

11. Oh! that mine eyes would melt into a flood sacred song with theorbo and organ

12. Verse (Voluntary) in G minor (anonymous, probably by Blow) organ solo

13. O mighty God, who sit'st on high penitential hymn with theorbo and organ

14. Sett (Suite) No 3 in A minor (Almand - Corant - Saraband - Jigg) spinet solo

15. Sabina has a thousand charms song with spinet

16. Of all the torments, all the cares song with theorbo and harpsichord / organ

17. Ground in C harpsichord solo

18. No, Lesbia, you ask in vain (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary) ('The Queen's Epicedium') song with theorbo and organ



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