Shakespeare Songs

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ANONYMOUS / BYRD / CUTTING / JOHNSON / MORLEY / etc
Shakespeare Songs
Desmond Dupre-lute, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller-director

[ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 10 February 2014

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There can be no doubt that music played a considerable role in Shakespeare's plays, although very little of it has survived. Intended to highlight the qualities of a character, to intensify a dramatic situation or to create a certain mood, these songs were written by composers as varied a Byrd, Weelkes and Morley and are part of the very quintessence of Elizabethan music.

Tracks:

Anonymous
Willow song
How should I your true love know
We be soldiers three
When griping griefs
Calleno custure me
Then they for sudden joy did weep
Bonny sweet Robin
When that I was
Kemp's jig
Greensleeves
He that will an alehouse keep

William Byrd (1543 - 1623)
Non nobis Domine

Francis Cutting ( - 1603)
Walshingham variations

Robert Johnson
Where the bee sucks
Full fathom five

Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602)
It was a lover and his lass
O mistress mine

Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623)
Strike it up, Tabor

John Wilson (1595 - 1674)
Take, o take those lips away