Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: Elizabethan Madrigals_音乐专辑
Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: Elizabethan Madrigals
表演者: The Cambridge Singers/约翰·卢特 John Rutter
流派: 古典
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2003-08-01
唱片数: 1
出版者: Collegium
条形码: 0040888051121
专辑简介
"an absolute joy" - Music and Musicians Hi-Fi News and Record Review Record of the Month The sixteenth-century madrigal was an Italian form. The term ‘madrigal’ was loosely applied to a wide variety of music, but generally denoted a polyphonic setting for four or more voices of an amorous or pastoral text which was closely depicted in the music. Thomas Morely transplanted the form into England in the 1590s; this marked the beginning of the brief but brilliant flowering of the English madrigal. Between the 1590s and the early 1620s, twenty composers published a total of 36 books of madrigals, after which the form virtually disappeared. Some of these composers, such as Morely and Weelkes, followed the Italian model closely; others, such as Byrd and Gibbons, mostly stayed with the simpler English form of the consort song, where the tune remains in one voice, word-painting is not used, and strophic form is preferred to the continuous structure of the madrigal proper. Among the twenty-one items selected for this recording there are examples of several types of piece,! ranging from true Italianate madrigals such as Too much I once lamented, via more popular ‘balletts’ such as Fyer, fyer!, to the simple part-songs like A little pretty bonny lass. The variety, imagination, and inspired blending of poetry and music characteristic of the best of the ‘English Madrigal School’ afford a particular kind of delight in performance, shared equally by singer and listener
曲目
1. Harke all ye lovely saints above, madrigal for 5 voices - Thomas Weelkes
2. Though Amaryllis dance in green, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB) - William Byrd
3. Round About in a Fair Ring - John Bennet
4. Adue, Ye Citty-Prisoning Towers for 5 voices - Thomas Tomkins
5. Flora gave me fairest flowers, madrigal (No. 22, The First Set of English Madrigals) - John Wilbye
6. Sweet Suffolke Owle - Thomas Vautor
7. As Vesta was, from Latmos hill descending, madrigal for 6 voices - Thomas Weelkes
8. Lullaby, my sweet little baby, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB) & viols - William Byrd
9. This sweet and merry month of May, madrigal for 6 voices (SSATTB) - William Byrd
10. Now is the month of maying, madrigal for 5 voices - Thomas Morley
11. A Little Pretty Bonny Lass - John Farmer
12. Fyer, fyer, madrigal for 5 voices - Thomas Morley
13. Too Much I Once Lamented for 5 voices - Thomas Tomkins
14. My bonny lasse she smyleth, madrigal for 5 voices - Thomas Morley
15. Ha ha this world doth passe, madrigal for 3 voices - Thomas Weelkes
16. Quick, Quick, Away, Dispatch for 6 voices - Michael East
17. Daintie fine bird, madrigal for 5 voices - Orlando Gibbons
18. Come again, sweet love doth now invite, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs) - John Dowland
19. Mother, I Will Have A Husband - Thomas Vautor
20. Draw On, Sweet Night, Best Friend unto Those Cares, madrigal - John Wilbye
21. Sleep, Fleshly Birth for 6 voices - Robert Ramsey
22. Weep, Weep, Mine Eyes, My Heart Can Take No Rest, madrigal - John Wilbye
23. Death hath deprived me, madrigal for 6 voices - Thomas Weelkes
24. The silver swanne, madrigal for 5 voices - Orlando Gibbons
25. Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, madrigal (No. 12, The First Set of English Madrigals) - John Wilbye
