Pastoral and mythological. Hark, all ye lovely saints above / Thomas Weelkes (3:15) -- Though Amaryllis dance in green / William Byrd (2:12) -- Round about in a fair ring / John Bennet (0:55) -- Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers / Thomas Tomkins (2:14) -- Flora gave me fairest flowers / John Wilbye (2:14) -- Sweet Suffolk owl / Thomas Vautor (2:33) -- As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending / Thomas Weelkes (3:24) -- Lullaby / William Byrd (2:08) -- This sweet and merry month of May / William Byrd (2:30) -- Now is the month of maying / Thomas Morley (1:58) -- Amorous and convivial. A little pretty bonny lass / John Farmer (1:55) -- Fyer, fyer! / Thomas Morley (2;17) -- Too much I once lamented / Thomas Tomkins (6:22) -- My bonny lass she smileth / Thomas Morley (2:08) -- Ha ha! This world doth pass / Thomas Weelkes (1:50) -- Quick, quick, away, dispatch! / Michael East (3:10) -- Dainty fine bird / Orlando Gibbons (2:00) -- Come again! Sweet love doth now invite / John Dowland (3:27) -- Mother, I will have a husband / Thomas Vautor (1:35) -- Elegiac and melancholy. Draw on sweet night / John Wilbye (4:58) -- Sleep, fleshly birth / Robert Ramsey -- Weep, weep, mine eyes / John Wilbye (4:28) -- Death hath deprived me / Thomas Weelkes (2:56) -- The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons (1:45) -- Adieu, sweet Amaryllis / John Wilbye (3:12).
Note
Previously released: COLCD 105.
Notes by John Rutter and texts with bibliographical references (15 p.) in container.
Event (note)
Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, May and October 1986.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Cambridge Singers. Performer
Title
Flora gave me fairest flowers [electronic resource] : Elizabethan madrigals.
Imprint
Whittlesford, Cambridge, England ; Omaha, Neb. : Collegium Records, [2003], p1987.
Performer
Members of the Cambridge Singers ; John Rutter, conductor.
Event
Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, May and October 1986.