Music for Shakespeare's Theatre on CD

Music for Shakespeare's Theatre

With works by: Robert Johnson (1582-1633) , Anthony Holborne (1545-1602) , John Dowland (1562-1626) , Thomas Greaves (fl. 1604) , John Wilson (1595-1674) , Thomas Morley (1557-1602) , William Byrd (1543-1623) , Francis Cutting (1550-1596) , Alfonso Ferrabosco II (1578-1628) , William Corkine (f. 1610-1617) , Anonymus

Contributors: England's Helicon

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

Item will be re-manufactured.
Expected availability end of September 2025

Current price: EUR 14.99

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Lieder & Stücke von Johnson, Holborne, Dowland, Greaves, Wilson, Morley, Byrd, Cutting, Ferrabosco, Corkine, Anonymus

Artists:: England's Helicon
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2007
Item number:: 9437720
UPC/EAN:: 0747313070879
Release date:: 4.4.2008

Music played an important role in the Renaissance theatre and Shakespeare brought new subtlety to its use. In a theatre without lights and sets, it fell to music to underline mood, whether for magic, comedy, feasting or pathos. Here are thirty or so settings from Shakespeare's lifetime by Morley, Johnson, Dowland, Byrd, Ferrabosco and others, including lyrics set to ballad tunes that would have been very familiar to the actors in his company.

Tracklisting
Contributors

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Hark, hark! the lark: Hark, Hark! The Lark
2 When Daffodils Begin to Peer
3 William Shakespeare: When Daisies Pied
4 John Dowland: Fortune
5 Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
6 Lawn as White as Driven Snow
7 Gerald Place: Kemp's Jig
8 Dorothy Linell: Callino
9 It was a lover and his lasse: It Was a Lover and His Lass
10 When That I Was
11 How Should I Your True Love Know?
12 William Shakespeare: Bonny Sweet Robin
13 William Shakespeare: Tomorrow is St Valentine's Day
14 William Shakespeare: And Will He Not Come Again?
15 William Shakespeare: In Youth When I Did Love
16 John Dowland: Tarleton's Resurrection
17 William Shakespeare: Hey, Jolly Robin
18 William Shakespeare: The Poor Soul Sat Sighing, "Willow Song"
19 Thomas Morley: The First Book of Ayres or Little Short Songs: O Mistress Mine
20 William Shakespeare: Come Away Death
21 Francis Cutting: 4 Divisions on popular tunes: Divisions on Greensleeves
22 Farewell Dear Heart
23 Dorothy Linell: Packington's Pound
24 Take, O Take Those Lips Away
25 William Shakespeare: O Sweet Oliver
26 Dorothy Linell: Light o' Love
27 Who is Sylvia?
28 Dorothy Linell: The Sick Tune
29 Sigh No More Ladies
30 William Corkine: Come Live With Me
31 Richard Edwards: When Griping Grief
32 George Boleyn: O Death Rock Me Asleep
33 Dorothy Linell: Heartsease
34 William Shakespeare: You Spotted Snakes
35 William Shakespeare: The Woozel Cock
36 Full fathom five: Full Fathom Five
37 John Dowland: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, P. 54: My Lady Hunsdon's Puff
38 Where the bee sucks