La Rêveuse, Jeffrey Thompson, Florence Bolton, Bertrand Cuiller, Benjamin Perrot - Henry Lawes: Ayres (2013) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Have You E'er Seen the Morning Sun ?
02. Slide Soft You Silver Floods
03. Bid Me But Live, and I Will Live
04. Divisions On a Ground
05. Prelude
06. I Rise and Grieve
07. Or You, or I, Nature Did Wrong
08. Neither Sights, Nor Tears, Nor Mourning
09. Almain - Corant 1 - Corant 2 for Two Lutes
10. Wither Are All Her False Oaths Blown ?
11. I'm Sick of Love
12. No More Shall Meads Be Deck'd With Flowers
13. Tregian's Ground
14. When Thou, Poor Excommunicate
15. Sleep Soft, You Cold Clay Cinders
16. Out Upon It, I Have Lov'd
17. Courant
18. Cloches de Mr Gaultier
19. Sweet Stay Awhile, Why Do You Rise ?
20. O Tell Me Love ! O Tell Me Fate !
21. Division On John Come Kiss Me Now
22. Wert Thou Yet Fairer Than Thou Art
23. Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover ?



Born in the final years of the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry Lawes lived through the troubled times of 17th century England. Brother of the charismatic but short lived William Lawes (1602-45), he was acknowledged in his day as one of the finest composers for the voice. This recording features a fascinating collection of his Ayres, performed by the French ensemble La Reveuse. With his extended vocal ranges, expressive melodic formulas, vibrant dissonances and the highly poetic texts, Lawes was a subtle painter of the melancholy of his age, earning a place between John Dowland and Henry Purcell.

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