Label: ABC Classics
Cat. No.: 456 692-2
Medium: CD
No. Discs: 1
A ravishing collection of songs, dances and incidental music from the theatres of Baroque London.This is the original music as used in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. If Love's a Sweet Passion also marks the debut of Sara Macliver, a dazzling young soprano from Perth, Western Australia who has become one of Australia's most sought after singers. Led by the charismatic Paul Dyer, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is the country's pre-eminent period instruments ensemble.
A title in the ABC Classics Antipodes Series. Other titles in this series
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| Artists: |
Sara Macliver (soprano). |
| Composers: |
John Adson, John Banister, John Coprario, Pelham Humfrey, John Jenkins, Robert Johnson, Henry Lawes, William Lawes, Matthew Locke, Thomas Lupo, Henry Purcell, John Wilson. |
| Conductors: |
Paul Dyer. |
| Orchestras: |
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. |
| Tracks: |
If Love's a Sweet Passion
Songs and Musicke for the Violins from the court masques and theatres of 17th-century London
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The Prince's Musique - 1620s & 1620s
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1 | ROBERT JOHNSON (c. 1582-1633)
The Second of the Prince's |
2 | ROBERT JOHNSON (attrib.)
Have you seene but a White Lillie grow |
3 | THOMAS LUPO (c. 1571-1628)
Fantasie in D minor for two fiolins and bass |
4 | JOHN ADSON fl. (c. 1600-1640)
Courtly Masquing Ayre (No. 2) |
5 | JOHN WILSON (1595-1674)
Take, oh take those lipps away |
6 | JOHN COPRARIO (1570/80-1626)
Cuperaree, or Gray's Inn | |
Caroline Masques - 1630s
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7 | WILLIAM LAWES (1602-1645)
Temple Masque | | 8 | In Envy of the Night |
9 | JOHN JENKINS (1592-1678)
Antimaske |
10 | HENRY LAWES (1596-1662)
Sweet Echo, Sweetest Nymph | |
A Restoration 'Tempest' - 1660s & 1670s
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11 | MATTHEW LOCKE (1621/22-1677)
Curtain Time |
12 | JOHN BANISTER (c. 1624-1679)
Go thy Way ('Eccho' duet) |
13 | MATTHEW LOCKE
Sarabande |
14 | PELHAM HUMFREY (1647-1674)
Where the Bee sucks | |
Purcell, The English Orpheus - 1690s
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15 | HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)
Curtain Time | | 16 | Fairest Isle |
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21 | Music from The Fairy Queen
Rondeaux (from The Second Music)
If Love's a sweet Passion
Symphony while the Swans come forward
Prelude
Chacone (Dance for the Chinese Man and Woman) |
Sara Macliver soprano [2], [5], [8], [10], [12], [14], [16], [18]
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer director |
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| Medium: |
CD |
| No. of Discs: |
1 |
| SKU #: |
00548 |
| Label: |
ABC Classics |
| Catalog #: |
456 692-2 |
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