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The myth of springtime is a brilliant metaphor for love, an ever-inspiring subject for pœts and musicians. This recording assembles a tapestry of tiny pœtic and musical gems from sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Italy, England, and France. Youth, beauty, and love are their inspiration. Some are well-known, some rescued from dusty library volumes, and others remain part of our folk culture and are reborn in this collection in new forms. Perhaps music, as the most temporal of the arts, is the most appropriate medium to express the transience of the subject at hand
Claude Le Jeune: Reveci venir du pintemps
Le printemps: Reveci venir du printemps
Claudio Monteverdi: O primavera, gioventu dell'anno
O primavera, gioventu dell'anno
O primavera, gioventu dell'anno
Susie Napper: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Marin Marais: Jeu du volant
Jeu du volant
Saillie du jardin
William Lawes: Gather ye rosebuds
Gather ye rosebuds
Alfonso Ferrabosco II: Io moi son Giovanetta
Io mio son Giovanetta
John Bennet: The dark is my delight
The dark is my delight
Anonymous: As I me walked
As I me walked
Gioseppe Caimo: Mentre il cuculo
Mentre il cuculo
Susie Napper: Les Oiseaux (The Birds)
Les Oiseaux (The Birds)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Rossignols amoureux
Hippolyte et Aricie: Rossignols amoureux
Susie Napper: En montant la riviere
En montant la riviere (arr. S. Napper)
William Byrd: Sweet and Merry Month
This sweet and merry month of May
Henry Purcell: She loves and she confesses too, Z. 413
She loves and she confesses too
Claudio Monteverdi: Chioma d'oro, "Canzonetta"
Concerto - settimo libro de madrigali: Chioma d'oro
Etienne Moulinie: Consert des differents oiseaux
Consert des differents oiseaux
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Le printemps: Reveci venir du printemps