Gibbons: Madrigals and mottets
- Gibbons: Madrigals and mottets
- Madrigals & motets, 1612
Consort of Musicke - Anthony Rooley
L'Oiseau Lyre 512 (LP)
Reissued in collection "The Silver Swan: English Madrigals"
Decca 458 093 (2 CDs)
Contents:
- The silver swan
- O that the learned poets
- I weigh not Fortune's frown (the first part)
- I tremble not at noise of war (the second part)
- I see Ambition never pleased (the third part)
- I feign not friendship (the fourth part)
- How art thou thralled (the first part)
- Farewell all joys (the second part)
- Dainty fine bird
- Fair ladies that to love (the first part)
- 'Mongst thousands good (the second part)
- Now each flowery bank of May
- Lais now old
- What is our life
- Ah dear heart
- Fair is the rose
- Nay let me weep (the first part)
- Ne'er let the sun (the second part)
- Yet if that age (the third part)
- Trust not too much fair youth
Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Christina Pound (soprano),
Kevin Smith (countertenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump
(tenor), David Thomas (bass), Polly Waterfield (viol), Trevor Jones
(viol), Ian Gammie (viol), Jane Ryan (viol)
Playing time: 44'
Recording date: February 1975
This recording marks a milestone in the Consort of Musicke's
career.
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Todd M. McComb