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Delos DEL-25460 (LP)
1981
Side 1; [25:48]
Side
One is largely devoted to some of the more widely known and loved music
composed by Henry Purcell and associated with the plays of Shakespeare.
It also includes some captivating music by Thomas Arne. Three of his
songs from the plays round off Side One and provide an interesting
comparion to earlier settings to be heard on Side Two.
Band 1 [5:56]
Suite from The Fairy Queen: * Henry PURCELL
Prelude [1:50]
Largo [1:12]
Fairies' Dance [0:48]
Haymaker's Dance [0:53]
Rondeau [1:02]
Band 2 [5:21]
Full Fathom Five [2:16] Henry PURCELL
The Willow Song [1:38] Pelham HUMFREY
Come Unto These Yellow Sands [1:18] Henry PURCELL
Band 3 [6:41]
The Owl [2:33] Thomas ARNE
Blow, Blow Thou Winter's Wind [1:46] Thomas ARNE
Where The Bee Sucks [2:14] Thomas ARNE
Band 4 [7:31]
Suite from The Fairy Queen: * Henry PURCELL
Entry dance [1:16]
Dance for the Followers of the Night [1:50]
Chaconne [3:12]
Hornpipe [1:04]
* Henry Purcell's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Side 2; [22:02]
Each selection separately banded
Side
Two is composed of music written before that of Purcell and Arne. In
addition to music actually written for the plays, we have included songs
and instrumental works based on the same examples of English popular
and traditional music that Shakespeare drew upon in his works.
O Mistresse Mine [1:45] Thomas MORLEY
It Was A Lover And His Lass [2:30] Thomas MORLEY
Witches Dance I [1:37] Anon. / Masque
O Death, Rock Me Asleep [2:07] Anon.
Come Live With Me And Be My Love [3:16] William CORKINE
Where The Bee Sucks [1:45] Robert JOHNSON
The Willow Song [2:06] Anon.
Witches Dance II [1:34] Anon. / Masque
Full Fathom Five [1:48] Robert JOHNSON
Bonny Sweet Robin [3:01] Folk / Thomas SIMPSON
THE FOLGER CONSORT
Robert Eisenstein, viol
Scott Reiss, recorder
Christopher Kendall, lute
Ann Monoyios, soprano
David Gordon, tenor
The
Folger Consort is an ensemble of musicians drawn from a broad
background of orchestral, solo, chamber music and scholarly experience
The Consort's fundamental goal is to provide to the rapidly widening
early music audience performances which combine a strong basis in
scholarship with a vivid sense of the vitality and universal appeal of
Medieval and Renaissance music.
The Consort is in residence at
the Folger Shakespeare Library, performing regularly in the Library's
unique Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Library, repository tor the most
significant collection of English and Continental Renaissance materials
in the western hemisphere and the world's finest collection of
Shakespearean materials, stands as perhaps the ideal home for an early
music ensemble.
In the eighteenth century, knowledge of our
musical heritage began to expand in two directions. As music was
composed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries historians and
scholars unearthed a wealth of music reaching ever further back into the
store of European culture through the Baroque, the Renaissansce and the
Middle Ages. More recently, music from these periods has moved from the
world of research into that of performance. Through the efforts of the
Pro Musica Antique of Brussels, the New York Pro Musicas and subsequent
generations of early music ensembles, the music of these earlier times
has reached the ears of an enthusiastic and growing audience.
Executive Producer: Amelia S. Haygood
Recording Engineer: David Hancock
Disk Mastering Engineer: Bruce Leek
Disk Mastering at IAM Cutting Center using a transformerless cutting system
Matrix: K-M
Album Design: Tri-Arts, Inc.
Photos: Courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Consort Production Staff:
Leni Spencer, Executive Director
JoAnn Azzarello, Project Director
Robert Eisenstein, Research and notes
Michael David Brown, cover graphics
Jeanne Khron, cover design
℗ © 1981 DELOS RECORDS INC, Santa Monica CA