La Primavera

La Primavera
La Nature dans la Musique de la Renaissance - The natural world in Renaissance Music
The Boston Camerata - Joel Cohen, dir
Erato STU 71545 [LP]
Erato MCE 71545 [Cassette]

Contents:

    I. - Josquin Desprez

    Josquin Desprez
  1. Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino

    2. II. - Un Livre d'Heures

    Roland de Lassus
  2. La nuict froide et sombre (instr.)

    3. Claudio Monteverdi
  3. Quando l'alba in oriente

    4. John Dowland
  4. Come away, come sweet love

    5. Clément Janequin
  5. Ce moys de may

    6. Ludwig Senfl
  6. Wohl kumbt der may

    7. Giaches de Wert
  7. Vezzosi augelli

    8. Luca Marenzio
  8. Scaldava il sol

    9. Thomas Campion
  9. It fell on a summer's day

    10. Michael Praetorius
  10. Courante (instr.)

    11. John Ward
  11. Come sable night

    12. ----

    III. - Danses villageoises

    John Playford
  12. Chelsea reel
  13. All in a garden green
  14. An old man is a bedful of bones
  15. The chirping of the nightingale
  16. The friar and the nun
  17. Daphne
  18. Jenny, pluck pears
  19. Goddesses
  20. Nonesuch

    21. IV. - Bestiaire

    Anon., 16th c.
  21. Der Hund (instr.)

    22. Ludwig Senfl
  22. Die Weiber mit den Flöhen

    23. Thomas Ravenscroft
  23. Three blind mice
  24. The fox

    25. Orlando Gibbons
  25. The silver swan

    26. Lorenz Lemlin
  26. Der Gutzgauch

    27. Adriano Banchieri
  27. Contrappunto bestiale

    28. V - William Byrd

    William Byrd
  28. Laudibus in sanctis

    29. Anon., Sweden 16th c.
  29. Tempus adest floridum

Playing time: 32' 46 + 23' 40" = 56' 26"

Performers:
The Boston Camerata
Nancy Armstrong (soprano), Roberta Anderson (soprano), Anne Azéma (soprano), Rosanne Halloran (soprano), Sharon Kelley (soprano), Jane Shaw (alto), Kenneth Fitch (counter-tenor), Fred Raffensperger (counter-tenor), Larry Zukof (counter-tenor), Karl Dan Sorensen (tenor), Reed Boland (tenor), John Clarke (tenor), Joel Cohen (baritone, lute), David Ripley (bass), Gilbert High (bass), John Holyoke (bass), Lara Jeppesen (violin, bass viol), Nancy Joyce (transverse flutes, recorders, crumhorn, tenor viol), John Tyson (pipe, tabor), Kenneth Roth (recorders, crumhorn, dulcian), Alison Fowle (treble viol, bass viol)
Joel Cohen, dir.

Recording site and date:
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. USA [05/1981];br> Rel. 1984

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Pierre-F. Roberge