The Masque of Oberon

Ben Jonson's The Masque of Oberon
Music by Ferrabosco II, Johnson, Holborne
Musicians of the Globe - Philip Pickett
Philips 446 217

Contents:

  1. Augustine Bassano: Almande 3 (2 cornets, 2 shawms, 2 sackbuts, organ)
  2. Robert Johnson: Almande 5 - The Princes Masque I (2 shawms, 4 sackbuts, organ)
  3. Jerome Bassano: Almande 16 (2 cornets, 4 sackbuts, organ)
  4. Johnson: Almande 6 - The Princes Masque II (2 shawms, 4 sackbuts, organ)
  5. Heinrich Lübeck: Trumpet Ensemble Sonata No. 5 (5 trumpets, timpani)
  6. A. Bassano: Pavana (2 shawms, 3 sackbuts, organ)
  7. Anon: Dulcina (4 recorders, curtal, cittern, orpharion, bandora, spinet)
  8. Anon: Alman (2 cornets, 3 sackbuts, organ)
  9. Edward Nelham: Buzz, Quoth the Blue Fly (4 tenors)
  10. Johnson: Now My Cunning Lady, Moon (4 tenors, 2 viols, cittern, orpharion, bandora, spinet)
  11. Johnson: The Satyrs Dance (4 violins, 6 violas, 3 bass violins, 4 recorders, curtal, cittern, orpharion, bandora, spinet, bells)
  12. Peter Holman: Melt Earth to Sea (2 cornets, 2 shawms, 3 sackbuts, organ, tabor, 10 lutes, 5 viols)
  13. Peter Holman: Melt Earth to Sea (chorus, 2 cornets, 2 shawms, 3 sackbuts, organ, tabor, 10 lutes, 5 viols)
  14. Anon: Dulcina (4 recorders, curtal, cittern, orpharion, bandora, spinet, tabor, bells)
  15. Johnson: Seek You, Majesty to Strike? (2 sopranos, 2 lutes, chorus, 5 viols, 10 lutes)
  16. Johnson: The Fairies Dance (4 violins, 6 violas, 3 bass violins, 10 lutes)
  17. Alfonso Ferrabosco II: The Solemn Rites Are Well Begun (tenor, 3 lutes, 5 viols, organ, chorus, 10 lutes, 2 cornets, 3 sackbuts)
  18. Johnson: The First of the Princes (10 lutes)
  19. Ferrabosco: Nay, Nay, You Must Not Stay (tenor, lute)
  20. Johnson: The Second of the Princes (10 lutes)
  21. Johnson: Nor Yet O You in This Night Blest (2 sopranos, 2 lutes)
  22. Anthony Holborne: Pavan (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  23. Holborne: Coranto - The Fairie-round (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  24. Holborne: Coranto - As it Fell on Holie Eve (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  25. Holborne: Galliard (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  26. Holborne: Galliard (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  27. Holborne: Almaine - The Honie-suckle (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  28. Holborne: Almaine - The Night Watch (4 violins, 6 viols, 3 bass violins)
  29. Ferrabosco: Gentle Knights (tenor, lute)
  30. Johnson: The Third of the Princes (4 violins, 6 violas, 3 bass violins, 7 lutes, 4 recorders, curtal, cittern, orpharion, bandora, spinet, bells)
  31. Ferrabosco: O Yet How Early, and Before Her Time (soprano, lute, chorus, 5 viols, 4 recorders, curtal, 2 cornets, 3 sackbuts, organ)
  32. Magnus Thomsen: Trumpet Ensemble Sonata No. 34 "Meister Thomas Fideler" (5 trumpets, timpani)
  33. Ferrabosco: Almande (cornet, 2 shawms, 3 sackbuts, organ)

Performers: Libby Crabtree (soprano), Julia Gooding (soprano), Meredith Hall (soprano), Helen Parker (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), Simon Davies (tenor), Andrew King (tenor), Tom Finucane (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute); other instrumentalists are not named

Playing time: 50'

Recording date: November 1994 (London)

This is a reconstruction of a Masque performed at Whitehall on New Year's 1611, for Prince Henry. Musicological reconstruction is by Peter Holman & Peter Downey, while some items are merely chosen from the contemporary consort repertory.

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Todd M. McComb