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Awake My Lyre by Poeticall Musicke Poeticall Musicke : Awake My Lyre.
Late renaissance and early baroque music, historically performed.


A stunning album of renaissance songs from John Playford's book 'Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues' from 1676-1684 expressing desperate love, varieties of anguish, and a measure of drunkenness, accompanied by theorbo and bass viol.
Songs:

1. As Freezing Fountains (Pelham Humfrey)
2. Upon the Loss of a Mistress (John Reading)
3. Urania to Parthenissa (Matthew Locke)
4. Fair Lady So Strong are the Charms of Your Eyes (John Blow)
5. A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of a Lovely Boy (John Blow)
6. Cupid Once when Weary Grown (Pelham Humfrey)
7. Give Me My Lute in Thee Some Ease I Find (John Playford)
8. Awake My Lyre (John Blow)
9. The Claret Bottle (John Playford)
10. A Pastoral Elegy on the Late Earl of Rochester (John Blow)
11. An Ayre on a Ground (John Playford)

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Release date: 08/12/2013
Poeticall Musicke lives in York England

Tagged as: Classical, Baroque, Classical Singing, Composer: Henry Purcell, Composer: John Blow, Composer: Matthew Locke, Theorbo, Viola da Gamba


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