Orpheus With His Lute: Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne - CATHERINE BOTT, THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS

This fiftieth release in Hyperion’s glorious ‘English Orpheus’ series takes us on a Shakespearean Odyssey through Titus Andronicus, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado about Nothing, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest. Pride of place, of course, goes to Thomas Arne’s immortal settings, but the disc additionally explores some remarkable songs by his predecessors and contemporaries. 

Overture to Titus Andronicus[4'28]Jeremiah Clarke (1670-1707)
1 Overture[2'59]
2 Minuet[1'29]
3 Take, O take those lips away[1'54]John Weldon (1676-1736)
4 Can life be a blessing?[2'05]John Eccles (1668-1735)
5 Pardon, goddess of the night[3'55]Thomas Chilcot (c1700-1766)
6 Orpheus with his lute[2'54]Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
7 Orpheus with his lute[6'25]Thomas Chilcot (c1700-1766)
8 Hark, hark, the lark[3'18]Thomas Chilcot (c1700-1766)
9 To fair Fidele's grassy tomb[4'01]Thomas Arne (1710-1778)

Concerto No 9 in E minor[5'40]Robert Woodcock (1690-1728)
Rachel Brown (flute)
10 Vivace[1'46]
11 Largo[1'56]
12 Allegro[1'58]

13 When daisies pied and violets blue[2'26]

Richard Leveridge (1670/1-1758)
14 When daisies pied and violets blue[3'20]

Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
15 When icicles hang on the wall[3'16]

Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
16 You spotted snakes[2'15]

John Christopher Smith (1712-1795)
17 Full fathom five[3'29]

John Christopher Smith (1712-1795)
18 All fancy sick[4'57]

Willem De Fesch (1687-?1757)
19 Dry those eyes which are o'erflowing[4'14]

John Weldon (1676-1736)
20 Dear pretty youth[1'37]

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
21 Honour, riches, marriage-blessing[2'51]

Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
22 Where the bee sucks, there lurk I[2'09]

Thomas Arne (1710-1778)