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Hilliard Ensemble: English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals

Song Name   Composer
Italian Madrigals
Cantiam lieti cantiamo   Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
E D'un bel matin d'amore   Antonio Caprioli
Quella bella e biancha mano   Antonio Caprioli
Una leggiandra nimpha   Antonio Caprioli
Donne, venete al ballo   Francesco Patavino
Se la mia vita   Luca Marenzio
Chi la gagliarda   Giovan Domenico da Nola
Madonna mia fa   Adrian Willaert
Quandro sara mai quel zorno   Vincenzo Bell'Haver
Matona, mia cara   Orlando di Lasso
Tre ciechi siamo   Giovan Domenico da Nola
Divini occhi sereni   Philippe Verdelot
Con l'angelico riso   Philippe Verdelot
Madonna, il tuo bel viso   Philippe Verdelot
Fuggi, fuggi, cor mio   Philippe Verdelot
Si liet' e grata morte   Philippe Verdelot
Se la dura durezza   Jacques Arcaldet
Ahima, ahime, dov'e 'l bel viso   Jacques Arcaldet
Madonna, s'io v'offendo   Jacques Arcaldet
Il bianco e dolce cigno   Jacques Arcaldet
Morir non puo il mio cuore   Maddalena Casulana
Mia benigna fortuna   Cipriano da Rore
Anchor che col partire   Cipriano da Rore
O sonno   Cipriano da Rore
English Madrigals
O grief even on the bud   Thomas Morley
When lo by break of morning   Thomas Morley
April is in my mistress' face   Thomas Morley
Thule, the period of cosmography: I,II,III   Thomas Weelkes
Sweet nymph come to thy lover   Thomas Morley
Sweet honey sucking bees: I, II   John Wilbye
Miraculous love's wounding   Thomas Morley
Adieu sweet Amarillis   John Wilbye
Weep o mine eyes   JOhn Bennet
The silver swan   Orlando Gibbons
O care thou wilt dispatch me: I,II,III (since Robin Hood)   Thomas Weelkes
Fire and lightning   Thomas Morley
Strike it up tabor   Thomas Weelkes
See, see, the shepherds' Queen   Thomas Tomkins
Come sable night   John Ward
Sweet Suffolk owl   Thomas Vautor
In nets of golden wires   Thomas Morley
Draw on sweet night   John Wilbye

This is a 2 CD set, CD #1 has 71 minutes of Italian madrigals, CD #2 has 55 minutes of English madrigals. Perhaps the most important secular musical development of the 16th century, the madrigal had its fullest flowering in Italy, where Franco-Flemish composers Phillippe Verdelot, Adrian Willaert and Jacques Arcadelt, born in northern Europe, spent their working lives. In England Thomas Morley, John Wilbye and Thomas Weelkes succeeded in producing some real masterpieces. There are 26 cuts on disc #1, all in Italian, 'Cantiam lieti cantiamo,' 'Una leggiadra nimpha,' 'Con l'angelica riso,' 'Donne, venete al ballo'-all flow like sweet water from this talented, precise British sextet. Disc 2 has 22 cuts, all in English: Morley's 'April is in my mistress' face,' Wilbye's 'Sweet honey sucking bees,' Weelkes' 'O care thou wilt dispatch me,' Orlando Gibbons' 'The Silver Swan'-and they are equally fine. Recommended.

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