Emma Kirkby, Irene Mas Salom, Charles Daniels & Mallorca Ars Musicae - Jackson: Songs, Canzonets, and a Sonata (2018)

Tracklist
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01. 12 Songs, Op. 4: No. 8, Let Me Approach My Sleeping Love
02. 12 Songs, Op. 1: No. 12, Lanthe, the Lovely Joy of Her Swain
03. 12 Canzonets, Op. 9: No. 1, Time Has Not Thinn'd My Flowing Hair
04. 12 Pastorals, Op. 15: No. 7, Lone Minstrel of the Midnight Hour
05. 12 Canzonets, Op. 9: No. 5, Ah! Where Does My Phillida Stray?
06. 12 Songs, Op. 4: No. 4, Ye Shepherds Give Ear to My Lay
07. 12 Songs, Op. 1: No. 3, For Ever Fortune Wilt Thou Prove
08. 12 Songs, Op. 1: No. 9, 'Twas When the Seas Were Roaring
09. Sonata in A Minor, Op. 10 No. 4: I. Andante
10. Sonata in A Minor, Op. 10 No. 4: II. Allegro
11. Sonata in A Minor, Op. 10 No. 4: III. Minuetto
12. 12 Songs, Op. 1: No. 5, In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover
13. 12 Songs, Op. 16: No. 4, Again Returns the Blushful May
14. 12 Canzonets, Op. 9: No. 8, O Venus! Hear My Ardent Pray'r
15. 12 Songs, Op. 1: No. 2, Blest as Th'immortal Gods Is He
16. 12 Songs, Op. 4: No. 2, My Banks They Are Furnish'd with Bees
17. 12 Songs, Op. 1: No. 1, The Heavy Hours Are Almost Past
18. 12 Songs, Op. 7: No. 6, Night to Lovers' Joys a Friend
19. 12 Songs, Op. 16: No. 6, Sweet Was the Sun's Last Parting Ray


William Jackson of Exeter (1730–1803) was a painter and writer as well as a composer, but he has been, until now, something of a hidden treasure. As Timothy Roberts writes in his introduction to this first album of Jackson’s music, ‘his songs are rooted in English traditions, and if his harmonies rarely move beyond those of Corelli and Handel, Jackson’s emphasis on sensibility also brings hints of early Romanticism’. One contemporary observed that ‘His melodies were pure and natural’, resulting in music that is both elegant and charming. This recording brings two esteemed early-music stars into the Toccata Classics catalogue: Dame Emma Kirkby and Charles Daniels.

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