Songs from the Pleasure Garden - Boyce, Croft, Eccles, etc

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Album Summary

Performers

• Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• David Norris (Piano)
• Tristan Gurney (Violin)
• Malcolm Layfield (Violin)
• Jennifer Langridge (Cello)

Composers

• Johann Peter Salomon (1745 - 1815)
• Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778)
• William Croft (1678 - 1727)
• James Hook (1746 - 1827)
• Thomas Linley (The Younger) (1756 - 1778)
• John Blow (Composer) (1649 - 1708)
• Maurice Greene (18th cent. Composer) (1696 - 1755)
• John Eccles (1668 - 1735)
• George Frederick Pinto (1785 - 1806)
• William Jackson (Composer) (1730 - 1803)
• Daniel Purcell (1660 - 1717)
• William Boyce (1711 - 1779)
• George Munro (1680 - 1731)
• Stephen Storace (1762 - 1796)

Notes & Reviews:

"The songs are excellently well chosen; Langridge is particularly attracted to those numbers that accentuate witty turns of phrase, such as Daniel Purcell's "Cupid Make Your Virgins Tender." Patter abounds in Eccles' "Belinda," which contains the immortal lines "her prattle prattle tittle tattles, all engaging, most obliging." Langridge's singing is quite good throughout, though he sounds a bit more effective emotionally in lower lying songs. He has chosen an ensemble from among his own family; his daughter plays the cello parts, and Tristan Gurney plays a 1780 Gagliano that Langridge owns; Malcolm Layfield joins in on a second Gagliano that uncannily matches the sound of the first. David Owen Norris contributes accompaniment on a fortepiano on some songs to vary the backing, and at one point you could swear a harpsichord is in use, though if so it is not listed. The best stuff here are the two works of Thomas Arne, his song "Jenny" and short solo cantata "Cymon and Iphigenia;"" -All Music

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Works Details

Green, Maurice : Orpheus with his lute

• Performers: Philip Langridge (Tenor); David Norris (Piano); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Boyce, William : Orpheus and Euridice

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Tristan Gurney (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor); Malcolm Layfield (Violin)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Croft, William : How Severe is my Fate, song

• Performers: Philip Langridge (Tenor); David Norris (Piano); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Boyce, William : The Pleasures of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Philip Langridge (Tenor); David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 17th Century

Eccles, John : Releive, The Fair Belinda Said

• Performers: Philip Langridge (Tenor); David Norris (Piano); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 1 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Munro, George : My Lovely Celia, for voice & keyboard

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Philip Langridge (Tenor); David Norris (Piano); Tristan Gurney (Violin)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Hook, James : The Steadfast Shepherd, song

• Performers: Philip Langridge (Tenor); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello); David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Pinto, George Frederick : A shepherd lov'd a nymph so fair

• Performers: Tristan Gurney (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Storace, Stephen : The Curfew

• Performers: David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Younge, Thomas Linley (The : Think not, my love, when secret grief

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Tristan Gurney (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Jackson, William : Let no mortal sing to me, song

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Tristan Gurney (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Salomon, Johann Peter : Go, Lovely Rose

• Performers: Philip Langridge (Tenor); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Tristan Gurney (Violin)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Blow, John : Grant me, ye Gods, song

• Performers: David Norris (Piano); Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Blow, John : What is't to us

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Tristan Gurney (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Purcell, Daniel : Cupid, Make your Virgins Tender, song

• Performers: David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 4 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Boyce, William : The Non-Perreill, song

• Performers: Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Tristan Gurney (Violin); David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 1 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Green, Maurice : Go, Rose, My Chloe's Bosom Grace, song

• Performers: Tristan Gurney (Violin); Philip Langridge (Tenor); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello); David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Arne, Thomas Augustine : Jenny, song for voice, strings and continuo (from An Agreeable Musical Choice, Book 6)

• Performers: David Norris (Piano); Philip Langridge (Tenor); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1754

Arne, Thomas Augustine : Cymon and Iphigenia, solo cantata for voice, strings & continuo

• Performers: Malcolm Layfield (Violin); Jennifer Langridge (Cello); Tristan Gurney (Violin); Philip Langridge (Tenor); David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Concert Hall, Manchester University, England (12/20/1999-12/22/1999)
• Running Time: 11 min. sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1753