Traditional Glees & Madrigals

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Album Summary

Composers

• William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
• Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)
• Robert Ramsey (17th cent. Composer) (circa 1580 - 1644)
• Thomas Cooke
• William Paxton
• George Smart (1776 - 1867)
• Thomas Morley (circa 1557 - 1602)
• Michael Cavendish (1565 - 1628)
• Henry Rowley Bishop (1786 - 1855)
• Frederick Bridge (Composer) (1844 - 1924)
• Joseph Barnby (1838 - 1896)
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
• Thomas Weelkes (1575 - 1623)
• Thomas Vautor (circa 1570 - circa 1630)
• Orlando Gibbons (17th cent. Composer) (1583 - 1625)
• Benjamin Cooke (1734 - 1793)
• William Beale
• Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856)
• Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)

Notes & Reviews:

A fascinating look at the traditional Glee (from which Glee Clubs got their name) and its Antecedent the Madrigal.

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Works Details

Weelkes, Thomas : Harke all ye lovely saints above, madrigal for 5 voices

• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Byrd, William : Psalmes, Sonets and Songs

• Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1588

Morley, Thomas : Fyer, fyer, madrigal for 5 voices

• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1595

Vautor, Thomas : Sweet Suffolke Owle

• Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1619-1620

Morley, Thomas : Aprill is in my mistris face, madrigal for 4 voices

• Running Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1594

Tomkins, Thomas : Musicke divine, madrigal for 6 voices

• Running Time: 4 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1622

Cavendish, Michael : Come, gentle swains, madrigal

• Running Time: 1 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Morley, Thomas : My bonny lasse she smyleth, madrigal for 5 voices

• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1595

Gibbons, Orlando : Ah, deere heart, madrigal for 5 voices

• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Weelkes, Thomas : Thus sings my dearest jewell, madrigal for 3 voices

• Running Time: 1 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Ramsey, Robert : Sleep fleshly birth

• Running Time: 5 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gibbons, Orlando : O that the learned poets of this time, madrigal for 5 voices

• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Bishop, Henry Rowley : Foresters Sound the Cheerful Horn

• Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Cooke, Benjamin : Epitaph on a Dormouse, madrigal

• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Cooke, Thomas : Strike the Lyre, madrigal

• Running Time: 5 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Bridge, Frederick : The Goslings, part song

• Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Bridge, Frederick : Two Snails, madrigal

• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Beale, William : Come let us join the roundelay

• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Paxton, William : Breathe Soft, Ye Winds, madrigal

• Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Barnby, Joseph : Sweet and Low

• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Pearsall, Robert Lucas : There is a paradise on earth

• Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Pearsall, Robert Lucas : O who will o'er the downs so free

• Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Pearsall, Robert Lucas : Waters of Elle, for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Barnby, Joseph : The Kiss, madrigal

• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Smart, George : The Squirrel, madrigal

• Running Time: 3 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Elgar, Edward : Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra, Op. 30

• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1894-1896

Sullivan, Arthur : The long day closes, for 4 male voices (from "7 Partsongs")

• Running Time: 3 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic