Orpheus with His Lute - Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne /(English Orpheus, Vol 50) /Bott * Brown * The Parley of Instruments * Holman [Import]

Jeremiah Clarke (Composer), John Weldon (Composer), John Eccles (Composer), Thomas Chilcot (Composer), Maurice Greene (Composer), Thomas Arne (Composer), Robert Woodcock (Composer), Richard Leveridge (Composer), John Christopher Smith (Composer), Willem de Fesch (Composer), Henry Purcell (Composer), Parley of Instruments (Performer), Catherine Bott (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Parley of Instruments, Catherine Bott
• Composer: Jeremiah Clarke, John Weldon, John Eccles, Thomas Chilcot, Maurice Greene, et al.
• Audio CD (May 11, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B0001O2H6U
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Orpheus with His Lute - Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne /(English Orpheus, Vol 50) /Bott * Brown * The Parley of Instruments * Holman (Audio CD)

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