Thomas Morley - Elizabethan Madrigals

Thomas Morley
Elizabethan Madrigals - Canzonets - Balletts - (with Incidental Virginal Interludes)
The Primavera Singers of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua - Noah Greenberg, cond.
Esoteric ES-520 [LP]
Counterpoint/Esoteric CPT 520 [LP, mono]
Counterpoint/Esoteric CPTS 5520 [LP, electr. stereo]

Contents:

    Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, 1595
  1. .1 - Sing we and chant it
    Thomas Morley: Canzonets or Little Short Songs to Three Voyces, 1593
    .2 - Cease, mine eyes
    Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, 1595
    .3 - Now is the month of Maying

    2. Anon.
  2. Virginal Interlude: Barafostus' dreame

    3. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Canzonets to Two Voyces, 1595
  3. .1 - Miraculous love's wounding!
    Thomas Morley: Madrigalls to Foure Voyces ... the First Booke, 1594
    .2 - Now is the gentle season freshly flowering
    .3 - The fields abroad

    4. Thomas Morley
  4. Virginal Interlude: Galiarda

    5. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Canzonets to Two Voyces, 1595
  5. .1 - I go before, my darling
    Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, 1595
    .2 - Lady, those cherries plenty
    Thomas Morley: A Dialogue to Seven Voyces
    .3 - Phyllis, I fain would die now

    6. ----
    Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, 1595
  6. .1 - My bonny lass she smileth
    .2 - Lo, she flies when I woo her

    7. Anon.:
  7. Virginal Interlude: Irish dumpe

    8. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, 1595
  8. Leave this tormenting and strange anguish

    9. Thomas Morley
  9. Virginal Interlude: Goe from my window

    10. Thomas Morley: Madrigalls to Foure Voyces ... the First Booke, 1594
  10. Clorinda false, adieu, thy love torments me

    11. Anon.:
  11. Virginal Interlude: Cam shee

    12. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, 1595
  12. Fire! fire! my heart!

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
Primavera Singers [Ruth Daigon (soprano), Lois Roman (soprano), Russell Oberlin (countertenor), Arthur Squires (tenor), Charles Bressler (tenor), Brayton Lewis (bass)] - Noah Greenberg, dir. & Blanche Winogron (virginal interlude)

Recording site and date:
Esoteric Studios, New York City, NY, USA [1953].
Rel.: October 1953

Excerpts:
[1.3] Counterpoint CPT 540 [LP, mono] Children's Songs of Shakespeare's Time

Compilation:
Everest 3145 [LPx7, mono] New York Pro Musica Memorial edition.
Everest 6145 [LPx7, electr. stereo] New York Pro Musica Memorial edition

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Comments:
Information from owned LP (esoteric) and James Gollin (from his book "Pied Piper, the many lives of Noah Greenberg", Pendragon, 2001).

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