Описание
Members of the Cambridge Singers – Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: English Madrigals [New Vinyl LP]
Artist: Members of the Cambridge Singers
Title: Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: English Madrigals
Format: Vinyl
Genre: Classical Artists
UPC: 040888010531
Condition: New
Release Date: 2016
Record Label: Collegium Records
Album Tracks
1. Thomas Weelkes: Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints Above
2. William Byrd: Though Amaryllis Dance in Green
3. John Bennet: Round About in a Fair Ring
4. Thomas Tomkins: Adieu, Ye City-Prisoning Towers
5. Thomas Wilbye: Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers
6. Thomas Vautor: Sweet Suffolk Owl
7. Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending
8. William Byrd: Lullaby
9. William Byrd: This Sweet and Merry Month of May
10. Thomas Morley: Now Is the Month of Maying
11. John Farmer: A Little Pretty Bonny Lass
12. Thomas Morely: Fyer, Fyer!
13. Thomas Tomkins: Too Much I Once Lamented
14. Thomas Morley: My Bonny Lass She Smileth
15. Thomas Weelkes: Ha Ha! This World Doth Pass
16. Michael East: Quick, Quick, Away, Dispatch
17. Orlando Gibbons: Dainty Fine Bird
18. John Dowland: Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
19. Thomas Vautor: Mother, I Will Have a Husband
20. Thomas Wilbye: Draw on, Sweet Night
21. Robert Ramsey: Sleep, Fleshly Birth
22. Thomas Wilbye: Weep, Weep, Mine Eyes
23. Thomas Weelkes: Death Hath Deprived Me
24. Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan
25. Thomas Wilbye: Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis
John Rutter’s Cambridge Singers bring consistent unanimity of ensemble and a natural expressive feeling to this very attractive program of madrigals. Perhaps the first group, devoted to love and marriage, may be thought rather too consistently mellifluous; but the second, ‘Madrigals of times and season’, is nicely contrasted, with the clean articulation of Morley’s Now is the month of Maying made the more telling by the lightness of the vocal production. John Wilbye’s lovely Draw on sweet night, which follows, makes a perfect contrast. After two items about ‘Fairies, spirits and conceits’, the concert closes in a mood of moving Elizabethan melancholy with a group devoted to mourning and farewell. Superb recording in a most flattering acoustic makes this collection the more enjoyable, though one to be dipped into rather than heard all at once.
