Greensleeves - Folk music of the British Isles

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Greensleeves - Folk music of the British Isles
Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks

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Release Date: Wednesday 25 May 2016

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'Greensleeves' is a celebration of music spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles, featuring mesmerising new arrangements by Geoffrey Webber and Toby Young of some of the most beautiful folk music ever written. The recording includes 'Loch Lomond', 'Lisa Lân' and of course, perhaps the most famous British melody ever written: 'Greensleeves'.

"There's a charming ebb and flow to this hypothetical entertainment: the playful Sinfonia from Acis and Galatea leads straight into a little organ improvisation; then the Organ Concerto in B flat, played sweetly on a little chamber organ by Daniel Moult, leads into Galatea's 'Hush, ye pretty warbling choir'…a perfectly sensible and enjoyable approach to imagining what a typical night at Vauxhall might have sounded like" Gramophone Magazine, May 2016

"an attractive potpourri by Handel and others. These bright, lively accounts of music which we know was heard at Vauxhall include an aria from Acis and Galatea and a fine John Hebden concerto, and to close, the glorious duet As steals the morn from Handel's L'Allegro." The Guardian, 24th April 2016 ****

Tracks:

1 Lisa Lân Traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber
2 The Blue Bird Charles Villiers Stanford
3 The Banks of my own Lovely Lee Traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber
4 She Moved Through the Fair Traditional, arr. Toby Young
5 Lay a Garland Robert Pearsall
6 Sweet Kitty Traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber
7 Suo Gân Traditional, arr. Toby Young
8 I Love my Love Traditional, arr. Gustav Holst
9 Dadl Dau Traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber
10 Now is the Month of Maying Thomas Morley
11 An Rosen Wyn Traditional, arr. Christopher Monks
12 Greensleeves Traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber
13 Loch Lomond Traditional, arr. R. Vaughan Williams
14 O Love, 'tis a Calm Starry Night Traditional, arr. Patrick Hadley
15 Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O! Traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber

Armonico Consort - Greensleeves