An Evening of Elizabethan Verse and Its Music

An Evening of Elizabethan Verse and Its Music

W.H. Auden & New York Pro Musica Antiqua - Noah Greenberg, dir.
Columbia "Masterworks" ML 5051 [LP, mono]
Odyssey 32 16 0171 [LP, mono]

Contents:

Thomas Weelkes - Anonymous:

1. Tan Ta Ra cries Mars (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   Tan Ta Ra cries Mars

Robert Jones - Framcis Davison:

2. Sweet, if you like and love me still (Text read by W. H. Auden
   Sweet, if you like and love me still

John Wilbye - Anonymous:

3. Flora gave me fairest flowers (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   Flora gave me fairest flowers

Alfonso Ferrabosco - Ben Jonson:

4. Come, my Celia (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   Come, my Celia

Robert Jones - Anonymous:

5. Sweet Kate of late (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   Sweet Kate of late

Robert Jones - Thomas Campian:

6. Though your strangeness (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   
7. Though your strangeness

Thomas Morley - Anonymous:

8. I saw my lady weeping (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   I saw my lady weeping

John Wilbye - Anonymous:

9. Sweet honey-sucking bees (Text read by W. H. Auden)
   Sweet honey-sucking bees

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George Kirbye - Edmund Spenser:

10. Up then Melpomene (Text read by W. H. Auden)
    Up then Melpomene

John Dowland - Anonymous:

11. In darkness let me dwell (Text read by W. H. Auden)
    In darkness let me dwell

Orlando Gibbons - Sir Walter Raleigh:

12. What is our life (Text read by W. H. Auden)
    What is our life

Alfonso Ferrabosco - John Donne:

13. So, So, leave off this last lamenting kiss (Text read by W. H. Auden)
    So, So, leave off this last lamenting kiss

John Ward - Michael Drayton:

14. Upon a bank with roses (Text read by W. H. Auden)
    Upon a bank with roses

Thomas Tomkins - Samuel II, Chapter 18:

15. When David heard that Absolom was slain (Text read by W. H. Auden)
    When David heard that Absolom was slain

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Performers:
W. H. Auden (narrator)
New York Pro Musica Antiqua
Ruth Daigon (soprano), Jean Hakes (soprano), Russell Oberlin (counter-tenor), Charles Bressler (tenor), Paul Maynard (harpsichord), Arthur Squires (tenor), Brayton Lewis (bass)
Noah Greenberg, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1954];
Rel. 1955 (Columbia), 1967 (Odyssey)

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