Music of Handel, Bach and the English Renaissance (2008)

Track Listing

1. Jephtha, oratorio, HWV 70: 'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r
2. Jephtha, oratorio, HWV 70: O spare your daughter
3. Jephtha, oratorio, HWV 70: Laud her all ye virgin train
4. Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40: Ombra mai fù
5. Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Ah! Stigie larve
6. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pastoral Ode), oratorio, HWV 55: Let me wander
7. Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Cielo se tu il consenti
8. Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga
9. Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: Kind Heav'n, if Virtue be thy care
10. Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: Wide spread his name
11. Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow'ry Form
12. Theodora, oratorio, HWV 68: To thee thou glorious son of worth
13. Coronation Anthems (4) for chorus & orchestra, HWV 258-261: Zadok the priest
14. Coronation Anthems (4) for chorus & orchestra, HWV 258-261: The King
15. Coronation Anthems (4) for chorus & orchestra, HWV 258-261: Let thy hand
16. Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Divine), HWV 74
17. Cantata No. 170, "Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust," BWV 170 (BC A106)
18. Mass for 3 voices, chorus, orchestra & continuo in F major, BWV 233 (BC E6): Agnus Dei
19. Cantata No. 54, "Widerstehe doch der Sünde," BWV 54 (BC A51)
20. Alexander's Feast, ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 75
21. Can she excuse my wrongs, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs)
22. A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke, musical treatise with diverse music: Air for three viols
23. Of All the Birds That I Do Know
24. Alman for harpsichord
25. If my complaints could passions move, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs)
26. Pavan for 2 bass viols in A minor
27. I Care Not for These Ladies for voice, lute & bass viol
28. Lady Hunsdon's Almain (Lady Hunsdon's Puffe), for lute, P 54
29. Pandolpho
30. Fantasia a 4 in C major
31. From silent night, true register of moans, for voice, trumpet, bass viols & lute (A Pilgrimes Solace)
32. Up Tails All, variations for harpsichord
33. Lamentations (of Jeremiah), 1st lesson for 5 voices, P. 102
34. Lamentations (of Jeremiah), 2nd lesson for 5 voices, P. 110
35. Jesu Salvator saeculi (Tu fabricator omnium), motet for 5 voices, P. 289
36. Deus Tuorum Militum I for 5 voices
37. O nata lux de lumine, motet (hymn) for 5 voices, P. 209
38. Jam Christus astra ascenderat (Solemnis urgebat dies), motet for 5 voices, P. 285
39. Salvator mundi Domine (Adesto nunc propitius), motet for 5 voices, P. 242
40. My sweet little darling
41. Guichardo
42. What Booteth Love
43. Ah, Silly Poor Joas
44. Buy New Broom
45. Ye sacred Muses (elegy for Thomas Tallis), consort song for voice & 4 viols: Ye Sacred Muses
46. Lullaby, my sweet little baby, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB) & viols
47. In a Merry May Morn, for voice & 4 instruments
48. Pandolpho
49. Come, pretty babe, song for voice & 4 viols
50. O Deathe, Rock Me A-Sleepe
51. The self-banish'd (A Minuet)
52. The wakeful nightingale
53. Rodelinda, regina de' Langobardi, opera, HWV 19: Dove sei
54. Bist du bei mir, aria arranged for voice & continuo, BWV 508 (after Gottfried Stölzel)
55. Voluntary, for organ No. 5 in G major
56. O dive custos Auriacae domus ("On the death of Queen Mary"), song for 2 sopranos & continuo, Z. 504
57. Voluntaries (7) for organ (from "Melothesia" Nos. 62-68): Voluntary in F
58. A Hymn to God the Father (Harmonia Sacra, Book 1, 1688)
59. Sweet nimphe, come to thy lover, madrigal for 2 voices
60. Love's goddess sure was blind (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus, 2 recorders & continuo, Z. 331
61. Sweet Kate
62. Miraculous love's wounding, madrigal for 2 voices
63. I goe before, my darling, madrigal for 2 voices
64. Amphion Anglicus for voice & continuo: If my Celia could persuade
65. Ah, Heav'n! What Is't I Hear?
66. O Bone Jesu for 2 voices & continuo
67. Gaudent in Coelis for 2 voices & continuo
68. Ah, my dear, ah, my dear Son!, carol (English)