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Orpheus with His Lute - Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne /(English Orpheus, Vol 50) /Bott * Brown * The Parley of Instruments * Holman
Jeremiah Clarke, John Weldon, John Eccles
Orpheus with His Lute - Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne /(English Orpheus, Vol 50) /Bott * Brown * The Parley of Instruments * Holman
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Deserves Applause!
J. Burton | 07/19/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"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"