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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Henry Lawes: AyresAyres for tenor and instrumental pieces from the England of Charles I & Cromwell
Batchelar: | Prelude | Lanier: | Neither sighs nor tears No more shall meads be deck’d with flowers | Lawes, H: | Have you e' er seen the morning sun? Slide soft, you silver floods Bid me but live, and I will live I rise and grieve Or you, or I, nature did wrong Whither are all her false oaths blown? When thou, poor excommunicate Sleep soft, you cold clay cinders Out upon it, I have lov'd Cloches de Mr Gaultier Sweet, stay awhile; why do you rise? O tell me love! O tell me fate! Wert thou yet fairer than thou art | Lawes, W: | Why so pale and wan, fond lover? | Norcome: | Tregian's Ground | Simpson, C: | Divisions on John Come Kiss Me Now | Withy: | Divisions |
Born in the final years of the reign of Elizabeth 1, Henry Lawes (1602-1645) belonged to the generation which succeeded the great composers of the English Renaissance and sought to impart a new Italian-inspired musical style. In the troubled times of 17th century England Lawes was, in his lifetime, acknowledged as one of the finest composers for the voice. With extended vocal ranges, expressive melodic formulas, vibrant dissonances and the high poetic quality of his texts, Lawes is a subtle painter of the melancholy of his age, situated between John Dowland and Henry Purcell. | 
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Gaultier, J: | Courante Volte Cloches | Humfrey: | Cupid once, when weary grown Oh! That I had but a fine man O Love, if e’er thou’lt ease a heart How severe is forgetful old age | Johnson, R: | Have you seen the bright lily grow? Woods, rocks and mountains With endless tears Come hither, you that love Come, heavy sleep Almain The Prince’s Almain | Lanier: | The Marigold (Mark How the Blushful Morn) I wish no more No more shall meads be deck’d with flowers | Lawes, H: | Amarillis, by a spring Amintor’s Welladay Sleep soft, you cold clay cinders Chloris dead, lamented by Amintor Ariadne’s Lament | Purcell: | If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378 When first Amintas sued for a kiss, Z430 Music for a while, Z583 Farewell, all joys Z368 |
Beautiful miniatures full of English melancholy. Purcell’s famous ‘Music for a while’ crowns a century of extraordinary song writing. Wonderful togetherness of Johannette Zomer and Fred Jacobs. Johannette Zomer and Fred Jacobs started recording a series of programmes devoted to 17th Century monody for which their research has unveiled many hidden treasures. This recording brings beautiful miniatures, full of English melancholy and humor, including Purcells’s famous ‘Music for a while’. Their previous recordings in this series - ‘Splendore di Roma’, ‘Nuove Musiche’ and ‘l’Esprit Galant’- received great international acclaim. “There's a brightness to the voice which pinpoints open-eyed wonder...That Zomer knows how to float a line and respond to its musical contours is never in doubt” BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 *** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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