Gedichten van bekende Engels schrijvers vormen de inspiratiebron voor deze set van vijfstemmige madrigalen van Orlando Gibbons. Deze cd maakt indruk door de rijke textuur van het gambaconsort en de heldere, pure stem van sopraan Claron McFadden.
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Record Tracklist
- What is our life
- I. Fair ladies that to love captives are; II. Mongst thousands good
- Fair is the rose, yet fades with heat or cold
- Dainty fine bird
- Now each flowery bank of May
- Lais now old, that erst attempting lass
- I. How art thou thral’d; II. Farewell all joys
- The silver swan
- I. Nay let me weep; II. Ne’er let the sun with his deceiving light; III. Yet if that age had frosted over his head
- Ah, dear heart why do you rise?
- Trust not t much fair youth unto thy feature
- O, that the learned poets of this time
- I. I weigh not fortune’s frown nor smile; II. I tremble not at noise of war; III. I see ambition never pleased; IV. I fain not friendship where I hate
