Lo, Country Sports

Lo, Country Sports
Elizabethan Life in Music, Song and Poetry / Country Life
Purcell Consort of Voices - Grayston Burgess, dir.
Belart 461 600-2 10

Contents:

    Anon.
  1. Alamin

    2. Thomas Tompkins
  2. Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers

    3. Thomas Weelkes
  3. Lo, country sports that seldom fades

    4. Nicholas Breton
  4. Shepherd and Shepherdess

    5. Michael East
  5. Sweet Muses, numphs and shepherds sporting

    6. Bar. Young
  6. The shepherd, Arsilius', reply

    7. John Farmer
  7. O stay, sweet love

    8. Giles Farnaby
  8. Pearce did love air Petronel

    9. Michael Cavendish
  9. Down in a valley

    10. Thomas Nashe
  10. Spring, the sweet spring

    11. Michael East
  11. Thyrsis, sleepest thou?

    12. Thomas Ravenscroft
  12. Sing softer, fellows

    13. Anon.
  13. The Wynch

    14. Thomas Weekles
  14. Whilst, youthful sports ae lasting

    15. Thomas Bateson
  15. Come, follow me, fair nymphs

    16. Thomas Lodge
  16. Corydon's Song

    17. Thomas Vautor
  17. Mother I will have a husband

    18. Thomas Campion
  18. Jack and Joan

    19. John Bennet
  19. The hunt is up

    20. Thomas Ravenscroft
  20. Tomorrow the fox will come to town

    21. Robert Johnson
  21. Alman

    22. Giles Farnaby
  22. Pearce did dance with Petronella

    23. Thomas Weelkes
  23. Our country swains in the Morris Dance

    24. Edmund Bolton
  24. A Canzon Pastoral

    25. Michael East
  25. Farewell, sweet, woods and mountains

Playing time: 45'10"

Performer: The Purcell Consort of Voices - Grayston Burgess, dir.
[Susan Longfield (soprano), Eileen Poulter (soprano), Felcity Palmer (soprano). Grayston Burgess (counter tenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (bass), Christopher Keyte (bass), James Tyler (lute), John Neville (reader)]

Recording date and site: Unknown [1971 or prior]

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Jon Stringer