Now what is love? / Robert Jones (3:52) -- Guardatevi olà / Luigi Rossi (2:58) -- Occhi belli / anon. (5:07) -- Toccata prima / Alessandro Piccinini (3:05) -- Se più del canto mio / Alessandro Striggio (3:38) -- Go crystal tears (3:28) ; Solus cum sola (4:47) / John Dowland -- Grief keep within / John Danyel (8:34) -- Enfin la beauté / Étienne Moulinié (4:21) -- Ma bergere non légere / Gabriel Bataille (2:08) -- Cessés mortels de soupirer / Pierre Guédron (4:09) -- Love arms himself (3:56) ; If love's a sweet passion (2:27) / Henry Purcell -- Suite in D / Nichola Matteis (5:54) -- O lead me (3:24) ; Hark the echoing air (2:43) / Henry Purcell.
Note
Principally songs with lute, baroque guitar, or chitarrone acc.; the 4th, 7th, and 14th works are instrumental works, for lute, chitarrone, and baroque guitar, respectively.
Sung in English, French, and Italian.
Event (note)
Recorded at Valley Recordings, Littleton-on-Severn, Apr. 1990.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Simpson, Glenda. voc
Title
Now what is love? [electronic resource] : aspects of love in the 17th century.
Imprint
Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos., England : Amon Ra, p1991.
Performer
Glenda Simpson, mezzo-soprano ; Barry Mason, lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar.
Event
Recorded at Valley Recordings, Littleton-on-Severn, Apr. 1990.
Bataille, Gabriel, 1575-1630. Ma bergère non légère.
Guédron, Pierre, approximately 1565-approximately 1621. Cessés mortels de soupirer.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Love arms himself in Celia's eyes.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. If love's a sweet passion; arranged.
Matteis, Nicola, active 1672-1699. Airs, 1st part. Selections; arranged.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Bonduca. O lead me to some peaceful gloom.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Hark! the ech'ing air; arranged.
Added title
Occhi belli.
Other form:
Source record: Simpson, Glenda. Now what is love? Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos., England : Amon Ra ; N[ew] Y[ork] : Dist. by Qualiton Imports, p1991 (OCoLC)23706361