A collection of songs and dances by Dowland, East and Holborne performed by two of the most eminent of British early-music groups in the late-1960s: Musica Reservata and the Purcell Consort of Voices. The performance of contrapuntal vocal music with viols doubling the voices, stems from a long European tradition and in several of the songs on this record, strings are used in this way. Part of an ongoing mini-series on Eloquence, ‘The Tudors’ presents a series of recordings of the music of this dynasty.
ANTHONY HOLBORNE: The Honie Suckle (Heartsease)
MICHAEL EAST: Poor is the life
JOHN DOWLAND:
Sorrow stay
Pavan No. V
What if I never speed
MICHAEL EAST: Weep not dear love
JOHN DOWLAND: Can she excuse
MICHAEL EAST:
Your shining eyes
O Metaphysical Tobacco
JOHN DOWLAND: In this trembling shadow
ANTHONY HOLBORNE: Heigh Ho Holiday
JOHN DOWLAND:
Lasso vita mia
M. Thomas Collier his Galiard
Away with these self-loving lads
ANTHONY HOLBORNE: The Fairie Rounde
JOHN DOWLAND:
If my complaints
Welcome black night
ANTHONY HOLBORNE: Pavana Ploravit
Musica Reservata
Michael Morrow
Purcell Consort of Voices
Grayston Burgess
FIRST RELEASE ON CD
Recording Producer: Michael Bremner
Recording Location: Decca Studio 3, West Hampstead, London, UK, 2–3 October 1967
Remastering Engineer: Craig Thompson (Audio Archiving Company, London, UK)
‘Musica Reservata’s […] vitality brings a great deal of early Renaissance music to life … All the madrigals are thoroughly enjoyable … The sound is excellent.’ Gramophone