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Elizabethan lute songs & Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary

James Bowman, Robert Spencer, Dennis Nesbitt, Oliver Brookes, Norma Burrowes, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd

The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow

Pleasant 1970s accounts, though James Bowman’s countertenor voice has been overshadowed by recent, more flexible, rivals, and the perky but sedate speeds of the Birthday Odes now seem cautious. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 25th Jan 2019
  • Catalogue No: 9029554315
  • Label: Erato
  • Series: Veritas
  • Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

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Contents

Morley: O mistress mine

Work length1:10
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Wilson, John: Take, O take those lips away

Work length2:22
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

anon.: Gray's Inn Masque

Work length1:15
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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute)

anon.: Wilson's Wild

Work length1:19
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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute)

anon.: The Willow Song

Work length3:34
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Dowland: Melancholy Galliard

Work length3:09
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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute)

Johnson, R: Full fathom five

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Johnson, R: Where the bee sucks

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Johnson, R: Care-charming sleep

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Johnson, E: Eliza is the fairest Queen

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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute), Dennis Nesbitt (viol), Olivier Brooks (viol)

Byrd: The noble famous Queen

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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute), Dennis Nesbitt (viol), Olivier Brooks (viol)

anon.: Gaiarda la Royne d'Escosse

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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute)

Edward Pierce: The Queen's Galliard

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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute)

anon.: Miserere, my Maker

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Dowland: Away with these self-loving lads

Work length1:56
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Dowland: Lasso vita mia

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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute), Dennis Nesbitt (viol), Olivier Brooks (viol)

Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 21, Mr. George Whitehead his Almand

Work length2:10
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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute), Dennis Nesbitt (viol), Olivier Brooks (viol)

Dowland: Now, O now, I needs must part

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Dowland: In darkness let me dwell

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Frescobaldi: Se l'aura spira spira tutta vezzosa

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Busatti: Morto son io

Work length2:36
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Galilei, V: Fantasia for lute

Work length1:23
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  • James Bowman, Robert Spencer (lute)

Carlo Luigi Pietragrua: Tortorella

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Vecchi: So ben mi c'ha bon tempo

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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Spencer (lute)

Purcell: Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1694), Z 323

Work length24:47
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Lloyd (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor)
  • Early Music Consort of London
  • David Munrow

I. Symphony (Largo - Allegro - Adagio)

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II. Come ye Sons of Art (Countertenor, Chorus)

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III. Sound the Trumpet (Countertenors)

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IV. Come ye Sons of Art (Reprise) [Chorus]

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V. Strike the Viol (Countertenor)

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VI. The Day That Such a Blessing Gave (Bass, Chorus)

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VII. Bid the Virtues (Soprano)

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VIII. These Are the Sacred Charms (Bass)

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IX. See Nature, Rejoicing (Soprano, Bass, Chorus)

Track length3:13
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Purcell: Love's goddess sure was blind, Z331

Work length23:17
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  • John York Skinner (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Lloyd (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Geoffrey Shaw (bass), Charles Brett (countertenor), Mary Beverley (soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor)
  • Early Music Consort of London
  • David Munrow

Symphony

Track length3:51
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Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind This Day (Countertenor)

Track length3:12
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Those Eyes, That Form (Bass)

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Sweetness of Nature (Countertenors)

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Long May She Reign (Soprano, Chorus)

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May Her Blest Example Chase (Soprano)

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Many Such Days (Countertenors)

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May She to Heaven (Chorus)

Track length1:53
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As Much As We Below Shall Mourn (Soprano, Countertenor, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

Track length2:05
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