Maurice Greene: Spenser's Amoretti (25 Sonnet Settings) / Benjamin Hulett, tenor; Luke Green, harpsichord, Giangiacomo Pinardi, theorbo

Maurice Greene: Spenser's Amoretti (25 Sonnet Settings) / Benjamin Hulett, Luke Gr
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Label: Naxos (USA)
Catalog No: NXS 8572891
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-12-11
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 6 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 747313289172

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> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 1. After so long a race
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 2. Happy ye leaves
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 3. Faire Eyes
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 4. Ye tradefull merchants
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 5. The rolling wheele
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 6. The merry Cuckow
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 7. How long shall this like dying life endure
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 8. The Laurell leafe
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 9. Like as a ship
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 10. What guile is this
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 11. Arion
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 12. Sweet smile
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 13. Marke when the smiles
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 14. The Love which me so cruelly tormenteth
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 15. Trust not the treason of those smiling lookes
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 16. Fayre cruell
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 17. Faire yee be sure
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 18. Thrise happy she
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 19. After long stormes
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 20. Like as a huntsman
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 21. Fresh Spring
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 22. One day I wrote her name upon the strand
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 23. Lacking my love
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 24. Since I did leave the presence of my love
> Spenser's Amoretti - No. 25. Like as the Culver

Notes & Reviews:

Master of the King's Music, Maurice Greene was an important figure in English music at the time of Handel. His sensitive settings of sonnets by Edmund Spenser constitute one of the earliest songs cycles in the history of English music.

Early Music Today
Remembered today mostly for his church music, Maurice Greene was one of the leading figures in British musical life in the first half of the eighteenth century, as can be surmised from his 20-year tenure as Master of the King's Musick. Greene's settings of 25 of the 89 sonnets of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, written in 1738, were originally written for soprano and continuo, but transfer seamlessly to tenor; here they receive impassioned and beautiful performances by Benjamin Hulett, whose limpid and agile voice is perfect for this music. Luke Green's excellent harpsichord playing occasionally suffers from being too brightly recorded, but he and Giangiacomo Pinardi make an excellent continuo team, whose realisations both are tasteful and expertly matched to the varying moods of each sonnet.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, U.K. (02/20/2012-02/22/2012).



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>Green, Maurice : Spenser's Amoretti, song cycle for soprano & continuo
  • Performers: Benjamin Hulett (Voice); Giangiacomo Pinardi (Theorbo); Luke Green (Harpsichord)
  • Notes: Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, U.K. (02/20/2012-02/22/2012)
  • Running Time: 61 min. 21 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Written: 1738