Campion: Ayres

Campion: Ayres
Drew Minter / Paul O'Dette
Harmonia Mundi USA 907023
Harmonia Mundi "Classical Express" 3957023

Contents:

  1. Beauty, since you so much desire
  2. Love me or not
  3. Your faire lookes
  4. Never love unless you can
  5. O never to be moved
  6. The cypress curtain of the night
  7. Awake thou spring of speaking grace
  8. Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton
  9. So tyr'd are all my thoughts
  10. Fire, fire
  11. Pin'd I am, and like to die
  12. Author of light
  13. See where she flies
  14. Faire, if you expect admiring
  15. Shall I come, sweet love, to thee?
  16. It fell on a summer's day
  17. Kinde are her answers
  18. Beauty is but a painted hell
  19. Sweet exclude me not
  20. Are you what your faire lookes expresse?
  21. I care not for these ladies
  22. Never weather-beaten saile

Performers: Drew Minter (countertenor), Paul O'Dette (lute)

Playing time: 58'

Recording date: November 1989

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was a very accomplished poet, and indeed these settings subjugate the melodic line (which Campion considered optional) to the articulation of the poetry. This program contains a selection of 22 of Campion's 118 songs.

Other recordings:

Move now with measured sound
Campion: Songs
Robin Blaze / Elizabeth Kenny / David Miller et al.
Hyperion 67268
Campion: Lute Songs
Steven Rickards / Dorothy Linell
Naxos 8.553380
Campion: English Ayres
Michael Chance / Nigel North / The English Ayre / Concordia
Linn 105

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Todd M. McComb