Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
2. Hulett, Benjamin
3. Green, Luke
4. Pinardi, Giangiacomo

Description

1. 1 audio disc (67 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Subject

1. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 > Musical settings
2. Songs (High voice) with continuo

Contents

1. After so long a race (3:46) -- Happy ye leaves (2:11) -- Faire eyes (2:44) -- Ye tradefull merchants (2:02) -- The rolling wheele (2:03) -- The merry cuckow (2:21) -- How long shall this like dying life endure (2:54) -- The laurell leafe (3:01) - Like as a ship (3:31) -- What guile is this (1:59) -- Arion (2:34) -- Sweet smile (3:27) -- Marke when the smiles (1:41) -- The love which me so cruelly tormenteth (3:19) -- Trust not the treason of those smiling lookes (2:34) -- Fayre cruell (2:30) -- Faire yee be sure (2:15) -- Thrise happy she (1:53) -- After long stormes (2:10) -- Like as a huntsman (1:27) -- Fresh spring (3:10) -- One day I wrote her name upon the strand (3:55) -- Lacking my love (2:19) -- Since I did leave the presence of my love (2:45) -- Like as the culver (3:46).

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. 25 sonnets for high voice and figured bass.
2. Compact disc.
3. Program and biographical notes and texts in English (12 p. : ports.) inserted in container. Texts also available online: http://www.naxos.com/libretti/572891.htm

Event (note)

1. Recorded Feb. 20-22, 2012, Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, UK.

Language (note)

1. Sung in English.