The Tudors: Lo, Country Sports
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4822562
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th April 2017
Contents
Works
AlmainThe Wych
Come, follow me, fair nymphs
The Hunt Is Up
Jacke and Jon they think no ill
Down in the valley
Farewell, sweet woods and mountains
Sweet muses, nymphs and shepherds sporting
Thyrsis, sleepest thou?
O stay, sweet love
Pearce did dance with Petronella
Pearce did love fair Petronel
Alman
Sing after, fellows
Tomorrow the fox will come to town
Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers!
Mother, I will have a husband
Lo, country sports that seldom fades
Our country swains in the Morris Dance
Whilst youthful sports are lasting
Artists
James Tyler (lute)John Neville (reader)
Elizabethan Consort of Viols
Purcell Consort of Voices
Conductor
Grayston BurgessWorks
AlmainThe Wych
Come, follow me, fair nymphs
The Hunt Is Up
Jacke and Jon they think no ill
Down in the valley
Farewell, sweet woods and mountains
Sweet muses, nymphs and shepherds sporting
Thyrsis, sleepest thou?
O stay, sweet love
Pearce did dance with Petronella
Pearce did love fair Petronel
Alman
Sing after, fellows
Tomorrow the fox will come to town
Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers!
Mother, I will have a husband
Lo, country sports that seldom fades
Our country swains in the Morris Dance
Whilst youthful sports are lasting
Artists
James Tyler (lute)John Neville (reader)
Elizabethan Consort of Viols
Purcell Consort of Voices
Conductor
Grayston BurgessAbout
When making this LP, Grayston Burgess and the Purcell Consort of Voices employed the rustic accents that made a radical departure at the time from polite, sacred-style diction in this music. Indeed the secular music of composers such as Thomas Ravenscroft is still little known and even less recorded, which makes this first international CD issue all the more welcome.
In its revival of English nymphs and shepherds from the high Elizabethan era, this carefully planned album is more exuberant in tone than ‘I Love, alas’ (newly reissued on Eloquence ELQ4822570). However, there are small masterpieces such as Farewell, sweet woods and mountains by Michael East, and almains of plaintive character played both on solo lute and by the Elizabethan Consort of Viols. The poetry is read by John Neville, who attained international fame through his starring role in Terry Gilliam’s epic The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
‘The performances are on the whole very enjoyable… The madrigals are sung very nicely… The more serious music is quite exquisite… It is an attractive record.’ - Gramophone, January 1971
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