Food of Love

Hesperus (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dorian Recordings
• ASIN: B00005AKKY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,664 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dorrington Lads

2. Westmorland/Moll Peatly/An Old Man Is A Bed Full Of Bones/Ten Pound Lass/Cuckolds All In A Row

3. Roslin Castle

4. The Satyrs' Masque

5. Mr. Baptiste Of France His Ground

6. My Lord Of Oxenfords Maske

7. A Ground By Mr. Finger

8. Browning

9. The Jew's Dance

10. Gray's Inn

11. Lady Rich's Galliard/Lady Laiton's Almain/The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth Her Galliard

12. Fancy

13. Pavan

14. Washington's March

15. Devision For A Trible Viol To Play With A Virginall

16. The Maiden's Song

17. Fantasia

18. Bonny Sweet Robin

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch recorder & string improvisations by Hesperus!, November 27, 2002

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Brianna Neal (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Food of Love (Audio CD)

Lovely, soulful string-playing on viols, fiddle, lute, guitar and theorbo by Tina Chancey, Grant Herreid and guest Jane Hershey provides the perfect accompaniment and counterpoint to Scott Reiss's amazing acrobatics on the recorder. Reiss's pitch, technique and tone-control of this temperamental instrument are impeccable, and he makes his intricate embellishments sound impossibly easy. (They are not!) The resulting pieces are light, spirited, and full of fun. Using the title imagery, if this music is "the food of love", I should think the food in question is chocolate, and the listener should prepare to be carried away on an ebullient caffeine/sugar high when this CD is popped into the machine. For more improvisational marvels for recorder and strings, try "Folie Douce: Renaissance Improvisations" by Ensemble Doulce Memoire, and the Palladian Ensemble's "Held by the Ears".