Coprario: Songs of Mourning & Consort Music: First release on CD

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Martyn Hill with this recording firmly establishes himself in the Pantheon of excellent singers for the lute-song repertory. Everything is superbly controlled, the words are understood as an... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Release Date: 7th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: ELQ4802298
Label: Eloquence
Length: 53 minutes

Coprario: Songs of mourning

Work length24:29

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Martyn Hill (tenor), Trevor Jones (bass viol), Anthony Rooley (lute)
Recorded: 1977-04-07
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

1. To The Most Sacred King James

Track length3:46

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2. To The Most Sacred Queen Anne

Track length5:26

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3. To The Most High And Mighty Prince Charles

Track length3:18

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4. To The Most Princely ...Lady Elizabeth

Track length3:05

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5. To...Frederick The Fifth, King Of The Rhine

Track length3:02

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6. To The Most Disconsolate Great Britain

Track length2:39

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7. To The World

Track length3:13

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Coprario: Fantasia à 3

Work length2:20

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Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
Recorded: 1975-01-24
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Coprario: Fantasia à 4

Work length3:23

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Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
Recorded: 1975-01-24
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Coprario: Fantasia à 5: Chiu pue miravi

Work length4:19

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Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
Recorded: 1975-01-24
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Coprario: Fantasia - Almand - Ayre 1

Work length7:44

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Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
Recorded: 1975-01-24
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Coprario: Fantazia

Work length3:22

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Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
Recorded: 1975-01-24
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Coprario: Fantasia - Almand - Ayre 2

Work length7:58

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Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley
Recorded: 1975-01-24
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

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John Coprario is not yet a household name (unless the house be one with devoted viol consort aficionados!) but his name should resound in any dwelling where people with a love of English music dwell – for he is firmly of the line of inspiration that leads directly to Henry Purcell two generations later (Coprario – William Lawes – Matthew Locke –young Henry). Viol players have for decades delighted in his pungent writing for consorts, but his music for violins invigorated the Jacobean scene, and certainly inspired his young eccentric genius, William Lawes, directly.

Songs of Mourning, the cycle written at the death of James I's eldest son, Henry Prince of Wales, has a wonderfully distinctive vocal style, matching the music to the words with a closeness that is made possible largely by the special qualities of the poetry. Campian, the only poet of the lutenist generation to have made any deep impression on literary scholars and anthologists, wrote the poems for Coprario's cycle.

This is the L’Oiseau-Lyre recording’s first release on CD.

Recording producer: Peter Wadland

Recording engineer: Iain Churches

Recording location: Decca Studio 3, West Hampstead, London, UK, April 1977

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Martyn Hill with this recording firmly establishes himself in the Pantheon of excellent singers for the lute-song repertory. Everything is superbly controlled, the words are understood as an integral part of the musical context, and the tone-colours are subtly modulated though without excess. … The recorded sound is excellent

Coprario: Songs of Mourning & Consort Music

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