The Choir of Royal Holloway, Rupert Gough - English Romantic Madrigals: Secular Partsongs from Victorian England (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Sing We and Chaunt It
02. Light of My Soul
03. Summer Is Y' Coming In
04. Great God of Love
05. Lay a Garland
06. My Love Is Fair
07. Thine Eyes So Bright
08. Disappointment
09. Dry Your Sweet Cheek
10. Like as a Ship
11. The Castle by the Sea
12. Flora's Queen
13. Lady on the Silver Throne
14. To Her Beneath Whose Steadfast Star
15. Who Can Dwell with Greatness!
16. La belle dame sans merci
17. Songs of Faith, Op. 97: No. 2, God and the Universe
18. On Time, Op. 142

The church music of Victorian England has always retained a secure foothold; not so the secular part-songs recorded here. Written to complement the Elizabethan madrigals which were then being rediscovered and performed, an unjustly neglected corner of the English vocal repertoire is revitalized by Rupert Gough and Royal Holloway Choir.

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