The English Orpheus - A Series of English Discoveries 1600-1800 [Import]

Matthew Locke (Composer), Turlough O'Carolan (Composer), Robert [2] [Composer] Johnson (Composer), John [Organ] Blow (Composer), William Shield (Composer), Capel Bond (Composer), Thomas (The Younger) Linley (Composer), James Hook (Composer), William [Composer] Jackson (Composer), William Boyce (Composer), Thomas Arne (Composer), Charles Dibdin (Composer), Henry Purcell (Composer), Peter [composer] Philips (Composer), Orlando Gibbons (Composer), John Jenkins (Composer), John Stanley (Composer), Thomas Roseingrave (Composer), Augustine Bassano (Composer), Thomas Weelkes (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Matthew Locke, Turlough O'Carolan, Robert [2] [Composer] Johnson, John [Organ] Blow, William Shield, et al.
• Audio CD (December 6, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B0000049XX
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,360 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #17 in Music > Classical > Ballets & Dances > Historical Periods > Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
  • #99 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Songs & Lieder > Madrigals

Track Listings

1. Curtain Tune, for string orchestra, in C major

2. Mary O'Neill (Carolan's Favorite Jig): Symphony, Verse and Chorus

3. Satyr's Dance for ensemble (doubtful)

4. Morlake Ground, for keyboard

5. 'Tis only no harm to know it, you know

6. Concerti (6) in seven parts: Concerto No 06 in B flat major: Affettuoso

7. So spake the god. . . There in old Arden's inmost shade

8. Concerto for keyboard in D major, Op 1/06: Andante

9. Where the bee sucks, Op 11/6 (after Thomas Arne)

10. Tell me, lovely shepherd

11. Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in B flat major: Giga

12. The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears, a comic serenata: So, there she lies upon the floor...If I was a wife

13. Trumpet Tune ('Cibell') for harpsichord in C major, ZT 678

14. Tu es Petrus, motet for 8 voices

15. Aria del Gran Duca Ferdinando di Toscana, for consort in 5 parts

16. Fantasia a 3 (Music for the Double Bass), No.1, MB16

17. Fantasia-Air Set, for 3 parts No. 2 in A minor, MB78/12 (VdGS Group 7, No. 2): Fantasia

18. Salvator Mundi for chorus

19. Solo [Sonata] for violin & continuo in E major

20. Concerto in Seven Parts, for strings No. 2 in B minor, Op. 2/2: Concerto No 02 in B minor: Allegro

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful - why was this music so underrated?, March 14, 1999

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This review is from: The English Orpheus - A Series of English Discoveries 1600-1800 (Audio CD)

Conductor Peter Holman has done a tremendous service to English baroque music by researching, restoring, staging and recording some of the half-forgotten masterpieces by English composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. This disc is a collection of excerpts from compositions issued on other discs in the English Orpheus series. It's always good to have a collection as a way of introducing people to what's out there. Yet, if you can afford it, buy at least some of the complete volumes in this series. I would particularly recommend Dibdin's Ephesian Matron (the CD also contains two shorter works by the same composer); and Lampe's Pyramus & Thisbe.