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Table of Contents:

• Sir Robert Sidney his galliard [lute solo] / John Downland (2:17)
• My heavy sprite oppress'd with sorrow's might / Anthony Holborne ; words, George, Earl of Cumberland (2:04)
• Change thy mind since she doth change / Richard Martin ; words, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (2:52)
• O eyes, leave off your weeping / Robert Hales ; words, Nicolas Breton? (3:04).
• Go, my flock, go get you hence / anon. ; words, Sir Philip Sidney
• Oh, dear life, when shall it be? ; words, Sidney (2:15) / anon.
• To plead my faith / Daniel Batchelar ; words, Devereux (2:26)
• In a grove most rich of shade / Guillaume Tessier ; words, Sidney (2:28).
• Far from triumphing court (words, Sir Henry Lea) (3:36) ; Lady, if you so spite me (words, translation of Cesare Renaldi) (2:11) ; In darkness let me dwell (words, anon.) (3:06) / John Dowland.
• Si le parler et le silence (3:07) ; Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (4:29) ; Vous que le bonheur rappelle (2:23) / Pierre Guédron (from Airs de différents autheurs, 1608) ; words, anon.
• Passava Amor su arco desarmado / anon. ; words, Jorge de Montemajor (1:31)
• Sta notte mi sognava / anon. (1:56)
• Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor / anon., from Guédron, Airs 2e livre, 1609 (1:07)
• Se di farmi morire? / Domenico Maria Megli [id est Melli] ; words, anon. (1:23).
• Dovrò dunque morire? (words, anon.) (1:47) ; Amarilli mia bella [ornamented version from British Library, Egerton MS 2871, pages 94-95] (3:58) / Giulio Caccini
• O bella più [che le stele Diana] / anon. (1:21).

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Nigel , performer

Contributors:

Dowland, Robert, approximately 1591-1641

Bailes, Anthony , performer

Savall, Jordi , performer

Dowland, John, 1563?-1626

Holborne, Anthony, -1602

Martin, Richard, 1570-1618

Hales, Robert, active 1583

Tessier, Guillaume, active 16th century

Guédron, Pierre, approximately 1565-approximately 1621

Melli, Domenico Maria, 1572-

Caccini, Giulio, 1551-1618

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Sung in English, French, Italian or Spanish.

Main Work:

A musicall banquet (1610) [by Rogers, N.]

Included Works:

Lord Viscount Lisle his galliard [by Dowland, J.]

My heavy sprite, oppress'd with sorrow's might [by Holborne, A.]

Change thy mind since she doth change [by Martin, R.]

O eyes, leave off your weeping [by Hales, R.]

Airs, voices (4-5) [by Tessier, G.] > Petit enfant l'amour (English)

Farre from triumphing court [by Dowland, J.]

Lady if you so spight me [by Dowland, J.]

In darkness let me dwell [by Dowland, J.]

Airs de cour [by Guédron, P.] > Si le parler et le silence

Airs de cour [by Guédron, P.] > Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie

Airs de cour [by Guédron, P.] > Vous que e bonheur appelle

Musiche, no. 2 [by Melli, D.M.] > Se di farmi morire

Nuove musiche [by Caccini, G.] > Dovrò dunque morire

Nuove musiche [by Caccini, G.] > Amarilli mia bella (arranged)

Related Series:

Reflexe

Subjects:

Songs (High voice) with lute

Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble

Lute music

Galliards

Performers:

Nigel Rogers, tenor ; Anthony Bailes, lute ; Jordi Savall, viola da gamba.

Performance Medium:

4 performers: voices (4-5)

General Notes:

Complete recording of the collection published by Robert Dowland, except for Caccini's Amarilli mia bella, here performed from a different version, perhaps as ornamented by an Elizabethan singer (see Rogers' prgram note).
Title from disc label.
Recorded Sept. 6-, 1976.
Originally issued on analog disc: EMI Electrola 1C 063-30934Q.
Program notes by Diana Poulton, Rogers, and Bailes in English, German and French, and original vocal texts with German translations inserted in container.
From the collection of George L. Loegel.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: 2438265022
Publisher Number, EMI Classics: 7243 8 26502 2 5
Publisher Number, EMI Electrola: 1C 063-30934 Q

OCLC Numbers:

869790723