The Tudors - I Love, Alas - Eloquence: ELQ4822570 - CD

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Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4822570
Label: Eloquence
Series: The Tudors
Length: 48 minutes

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Dowland: My Lady Rich's Galliard

Work length0:34

Robert Spencer (lute)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Philip Sidney: Arcadia

Work length0:57

Jeremy Brett (speaker)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Loved I am and yet complain of Love

Track length0:57

Morley: I love, alas I love thee

Work length1:27

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Weelkes: Lady, your eye my love enforced

Work length3:07

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Holborne: The Countess of Pembroke's Paradise

Work length1:45

Robert Spencer (lute)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Philip Sidney: Sonnets

Work length1:01

Jeremy Brett (speaker)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

O fair, O sweet, when I do look on thee

Track length1:01

Wilbye: First Set of English Madrigals

Work length2:36

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

10. Lady, when I behold

Track length2:36

Weelkes: Sing we at pleasure

Work length1:54

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Philip Sidney: Sonnets

Work length0:39

Jeremy Brett (speaker)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

All my sense thy sweetness gained

Track length0:39

Vautor: Lock up, fair lids

Work length8:23

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

anon.: Loth to depart

Work length2:16

Robert Spencer (lute)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Gibbons, O: Ah, dear heart, why do you rise

Work length1:51

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Philip Sidney: Sonnets

Work length0:46

Jeremy Brett (speaker)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

My Mistress lours

Track length0:46

Weelkes: My Phyllis bids me pack away

Work length1:34

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kirbye: See, what a maze of error

Work length2:08

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Dowland: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home

Work length1:19

Robert Spencer (lute)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Philip Sidney: Arcadia

Work length0:47

Jeremy Brett (speaker)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

With two strange Fires

Track length0:47

Ward, J: The first set of English madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for viols and voyces. With a mourning song in memory of Prince Henry

Work length3:07

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

17. Hope of my heart

Track length3:07

Vautor: Never Did Any More Delight

Work length2:42

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Tomkins: Come, shepherds, sing with me

Work length1:45

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Philip Sidney: Arcadia

Work length1:18

Jeremy Brett (speaker)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

My Lute within thyself thy tunes enclose

Track length1:18

Pilkington: O softly-singing lute

Work length4:27

Grayston Burgess (director)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

anon.: Sir Philip Sidney's Lamentation

Work length2:06

Robert Spencer (lute)
Recorded: 1970-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

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First issued by Argo in 1969 under the title ‘Elizabethan Words and Music’, this anthology of madrigals, poetry and pieces for lute is the latest reissue by Eloquence from the Purcell Consort of Voices. ‘Metaphysical Tobacco’ (480 7740) is another reissue as part of ‘The Tudors’, an Eloquence series which focuses on the composers who made England and especially London a capital for music in the 18th century.

The Purcell Consort of Voices was among the leading UK-based vocal ensembles in the early-music revival of the 1960s and 1970s. Its founder, Grayston Burgess, was schooled in the foremost Continental groups such as the Leonhardt Consort and Thomas Binks’s Studio der Frühen Musik. One singer to a part, light voices, clean attack, lively rhythms: these were the performance principles followed by Leonhardt, Binks and Burgess, who in turn paved the way for the likes of the Schütz Choir of London and the Monteverdi Choir.

Such principles ideally suit the Elizabethan aesthetic which is explored on this album through a telling juxtaposition of well-known works by the madrigal-masters Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. They are linked by galliards of John Dowland (played by Robert Spencer) and the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney, recited by the actor Jeremy Brett, who was best-known for playing Sherlock Holmes in a long-running British TV series.

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