Shakespeare's Musick
- Shakespeare's Musick
- Songs & Dances from Shakepeare's Plays
Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 446 687
Contents:
- Anon: Hollis Berrie (broken consort)
- Anon: Daphne (broken consort)
- Anon: My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone (broken consort)
- Anon: Tickle my Toe (broken consort)
- Morley: It Was a Lover and his Lass (2 sopranos, consort)
- Anon: Kemp's Jig (lute)
- John Wilson (1595-1674): Take, O Take Those Lips Away (soprano,
lute)
- Giles Farnaby: Bonny Sweet Robin (harpsichord)
- Robert Jones (1597-1615): Farewell, Dear Love (baritone, lute)
- Dowland: Tarletones Riserrectione (lute)
- Anon: Hold, Lingel, Hold (mezzo-soprano, consort)
- Anon: How Should I your True Love Know (soprano, consort)
- Anon: Walsingham (lute arr. Holborne)
- Robert Johnson?: Get You Hence (2 sopranos, baritone, consort)
- Morley: La Coranto (consort)
- Byrd: La Coranto (virginal)
- Johnson?: Hark, Hark! The Lark (soprano, lute)
- Morley: La Volta (consort)
- Morley: La Volta (virginal arr. Byrd)
- Anon: The Poor Soul Sat Sighing (soprano, lute)
- Anon: Robin (lute)
- Morley: O Mistress Mine (baritone, lute)
- Byrd: O Mistris Mine (virginal)
- Johnson: Full Fathom Five (soprano, lute)
- Johnson: Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I (soprano, lute)
- Morley: Can She Excuse (broken consort)
- [? The Frog Galliard - track not listed in track listing]
- Morley: Go from my Window (broken consort)
Performers: Libby Crabtree (soprano), Rachel Elliott (soprano),
Meredith Hall (soprano), Joanne Lun (soprano), Rosalind Waters
(soprano), Jeannette Ager (mezzo-soprano), Roderick Williams
(baritone), Jacob Heringman (lute), Gary Cooper (harpsichord,
virginal); other instrumentalists are not named
Playing time: 68'
Recording date: April 1995 (London)
This program is specifically related to Shakespeare, although
should probably not be taken to consist precisely of music performed
during or around his plays. Most of the material, however, is
derived from them. In other cases, it should perhaps be taken more
as representative of the general music-making.
Given the evident thought and preparation for this program, not
to mention the caliber of performers, the lack of detailed (or even
erroneous) track information is rather difficult to believe,
especially on a major label. Updated guess on this information
from Y.-P. Lee.
Some other programs on Shakespearean material:
- Music for Shakespeare's Theatre
- Gerald Place / Rebecca Hickey / Dorothy Linell
Naxos 8.570708
- Hark! hark! the lark
- Music for Shakespeare's Company
Bott / Gooding / Cornwell / Varcoe / Parley of Instruments - Peter
Holman
Hyperion 66836
- Fortune My Foe
- Music of Shakespeare's Time
Les Witches
Dorian 93182
- Airs & Dances in Shakespeare's Time
- Elwes / Stubbs / Musica Antiqua - Christian Mendoze
Pierre Vérany 787092
- Music of Shakespeare
- Elizabethan Music around 1600
Alba Musica Kyo
Channel Classics 11497
- Come, Gentle Night
- Music of Shakespeare's World
Ensemble Galilei
Telarc 80556
- Shakespeare Songs & Consort Music
- Alfred Deller / Deller Consort / Desmond Dupré
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi "40 years
Anniversary Edition" 77692
- Shakespeare's Musicke
- Camerata of London - Barry Mason
Meridian 84198
- Orpheus with his Lute
- Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne
Catherine Bott / The Parley of Instruments - Peter Holman
Hyperion 67450
- Blame not My Lute
- Elizabethan Lute Music and Poetry
Ronn McFarlane / Robert Aubry Davis
Dorian 92105
- Shakespeare's Englande - Music of his Plays & People
- James Griffett / English Consort of Viols - Nicholas McGegan
Griffin 4036
- A Distant Mirror / Shakespeare's Music
- Folger Consort
Delos 1003
The other recordings in the series by the present ensemble:
- Ben Jonson's The Masque of Oberon
- Music by Ferrabosco II, Johnson, Holborne
Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 446 217
- Purcell's Shakespeare
- Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 446 218
- Linley: Shakespeare Ode
- Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 446 589
- Enchanted Island
- Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 456 505
- Shakespeare at Covent Garden
- Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 456 506
- Nutmeg and Ginger
- Spicy Ballades of Shakespeare's London
Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 456 507
And a similar consort recording also directed by Pickett:
- Elizabethan & Jacobean Consort Music
- New London Consort - Philip Pickett
Linn 011
A couple of recordings devoted to similar theatrical material
for differently oriented ensembles:
- A Play of Passion
- Songs for the Stage and Consort Music
Fretwork / Jeremy Budd / Michael Chance
Virgin Veritas 45007
- Shakespeare's Lutenist
- Theatre Music by Robert Johnson
Emma Kirkby / David Thomas / Anthony Rooley
Virgin Veritas 59321
- The Ladyes Delight
- Entertainment Music of Elizabethan England
The Baltimore Consort
Dorian 90252
A couple of other collections featuring some similar music:
- Flower of Cities All
- Music in London, 1580-1620
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - William Lyons
Deux-Elles 1118
- Under the Greenwood Tree
- Estampie - Graham Derrick
Naxos 8.553442
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Todd M. McComb