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All In A Garden Green - Four Seasons Of English Music / Le Tendre Amour
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Details
- Composer
- PLAYFORD BYRD MELL BALTZAR
- Artist
- ENSEMBLE LE TENDRE AMOUR
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Apr 24, 2012
- Catalog #
- BRI94313
- UPC
- 5028421943138
About
A delightful collection of English songs from the 17th century, constructed around the major influence of the four seasons, and showcasing the great enthusiasm for music, particularly amateur music making, that took place during this era.
During the Commonwealth of England (c.1640–1660), music disappeared almost entirely from religious and court occasions. The use of instruments and music in churches was banned, and organs were destroyed by order of the regime – so the public turned to village and tavern musicians, country dances and new musical clubs for music making. Coinciding with the decline of the Elizabethan madrigal, folk music and settings of the famous poets of the day were popular; similarly, keyboard variations on dance tunes and romantic songs for voice and lute were all the rage, and this continued into the years of the Restoration under Charles II. The monarch’s influence can be detected in the French style of some of the later works, featuring oboe and large groups of strings.
This outpouring of inspired music is captured perfectly in this new collection, performed with insight and sensitivity by Ensemble Le Tendre Amour. Composers featured include Purcell, Playford, Morley, Croft, Lawes, Byrd, Eccles, Ravenscroft and, of course, many anonymous works. From bucolic country music to sophisticated pieces for a gentrified city audience, the music provides a vivid soundtrack to life in the turbulent world of 17th century England.
OTHER INFORMATION:
• Recording made in June 2011.
• Includes extensive booklet notes and complete sung texts.
REVIEWS:
"What an enchanting promenade through a musical garden – full of colour – a splendid sound - lively and high-spirited dances, not to mention the tender rendition of gentle love songs. Also truly splendid were the seven soloists of the ensemble, especially heard were: Sébastien Perrin (traverso), Adriana Alcaide (violin), and Nina Akerblom Nielsen (soprano). The result: an enchanting excursion to a baroque garden, glorious!" - Niederösterreichisches Nachrichten, St. Pölten, Austria.
"Closing the 10th Samobor music festival this year was a performance by early music ensemble Le Tendre Amour from Barcelona with the program “All in a Garden Green,” which caused great audience approval in the Samobor Franciscan church. Various combinations of instrumentation, a creative selection of repertoire, refined performance, and passionately dedicated members of this specialized ensemble, opened a rich array of emotional and spiritual nuances of beautiful music to the listener. The ensemble was as rich and inexhaustible as the interesting artistic periods themselves." - Radio Samobor, Croatia.
During the Commonwealth of England (c.1640–1660), music disappeared almost entirely from religious and court occasions. The use of instruments and music in churches was banned, and organs were destroyed by order of the regime – so the public turned to village and tavern musicians, country dances and new musical clubs for music making. Coinciding with the decline of the Elizabethan madrigal, folk music and settings of the famous poets of the day were popular; similarly, keyboard variations on dance tunes and romantic songs for voice and lute were all the rage, and this continued into the years of the Restoration under Charles II. The monarch’s influence can be detected in the French style of some of the later works, featuring oboe and large groups of strings.
This outpouring of inspired music is captured perfectly in this new collection, performed with insight and sensitivity by Ensemble Le Tendre Amour. Composers featured include Purcell, Playford, Morley, Croft, Lawes, Byrd, Eccles, Ravenscroft and, of course, many anonymous works. From bucolic country music to sophisticated pieces for a gentrified city audience, the music provides a vivid soundtrack to life in the turbulent world of 17th century England.
OTHER INFORMATION:
• Recording made in June 2011.
• Includes extensive booklet notes and complete sung texts.
REVIEWS:
"What an enchanting promenade through a musical garden – full of colour – a splendid sound - lively and high-spirited dances, not to mention the tender rendition of gentle love songs. Also truly splendid were the seven soloists of the ensemble, especially heard were: Sébastien Perrin (traverso), Adriana Alcaide (violin), and Nina Akerblom Nielsen (soprano). The result: an enchanting excursion to a baroque garden, glorious!" - Niederösterreichisches Nachrichten, St. Pölten, Austria.
"Closing the 10th Samobor music festival this year was a performance by early music ensemble Le Tendre Amour from Barcelona with the program “All in a Garden Green,” which caused great audience approval in the Samobor Franciscan church. Various combinations of instrumentation, a creative selection of repertoire, refined performance, and passionately dedicated members of this specialized ensemble, opened a rich array of emotional and spiritual nuances of beautiful music to the listener. The ensemble was as rich and inexhaustible as the interesting artistic periods themselves." - Radio Samobor, Croatia.
Tracklist 25 tracks
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1 The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: Chirping of the Nightingale - Chirping of the Lark 00:53
- Track
- 1
- Title
- The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: Chirping of the Nightingale - Chirping of the Lark
- Duration
- 00:53
- Composer
- John Playford
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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2 John come kiss me now (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) - The Division Violin: Divisions on John come kiss me now - Divisions on "John Come Kiss Me Now" 04:40
- Track
- 2
- Title
- John come kiss me now (from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) - The Division Violin: Divisions on John come kiss me now - Divisions on "John Come Kiss Me Now"
- Duration
- 04:40
- Composer
- William Byrd, Davis Mell, Thomas Baltzar
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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3 Ayres for the Violin: Va poco di manera Italiana - Aria amorosa 03:36
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Ayres for the Violin: Va poco di manera Italiana - Aria amorosa
- Duration
- 03:36
- Composer
- Nicola Matteis
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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4 No More Shall Meads be Deck'd With Flow'rs 03:44
- Track
- 4
- Title
- No More Shall Meads be Deck'd With Flow'rs
- Duration
- 03:44
- Composer
- Nicholas Lanier
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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5 Airs Anglois: Ciaccona 02:35
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Airs Anglois: Ciaccona
- Duration
- 02:35
- Composer
- Gottfried Finger
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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6 The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: The Glory of the West - Godesses 01:17
- Track
- 6
- Title
- The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: The Glory of the West - Godesses
- Duration
- 01:17
- Composer
- John Playford
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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7 Can bewtye's spring admitt 01:30
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Can bewtye's spring admitt
- Duration
- 01:30
- Composer
- William Lawes
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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8 Pieces de guittarre de differends autheurs: Chaconne 03:56
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Pieces de guittarre de differends autheurs: Chaconne
- Duration
- 03:56
- Composer
- Henry Francois de Gallot
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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9 Now ye Spring is come [Elizabeth Rogers Hir Virginall Booke, 1656] 01:02
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Now ye Spring is come [Elizabeth Rogers Hir Virginall Booke, 1656]
- Duration
- 01:02
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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10 Ground after the Scotch Humour 02:13
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Ground after the Scotch Humour
- Duration
- 02:13
- Composer
- Nicola Matteis Jr.
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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11 Ground in C Minor (attrib. to H. Purcell) 02:52
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Ground in C Minor (attrib. to H. Purcell)
- Duration
- 02:52
- Composer
- William Croft
- Performer
- Esteban Mazer
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12 Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z. 585: Sweeter than roses 03:10
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z. 585: Sweeter than roses
- Duration
- 03:10
- Composer
- Henry Purcell
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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13 The Division Flute: Greensleeves 04:55
- Track
- 13
- Title
- The Division Flute: Greensleeves
- Duration
- 04:55
- Composer
- John Walsh
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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14 The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: No. 19. All in a garden green - Onder een linde groen (Unter der Linden grune), SwWV 325 02:07
- Track
- 14
- Title
- The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: No. 19. All in a garden green - Onder een linde groen (Unter der Linden grune), SwWV 325
- Duration
- 02:07
- Composer
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, John Playford
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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15 The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: Stanes Morris - The Glory of the Sun 01:10
- Track
- 15
- Title
- The English Dance Master, Vol. 1: Stanes Morris - The Glory of the Sun
- Duration
- 01:10
- Composer
- John Playford
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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16 O Mistress Mine 02:34
- Track
- 16
- Title
- O Mistress Mine
- Duration
- 02:34
- Composer
- Thomas Morley
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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17 Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde 03:10
- Track
- 17
- Title
- Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde
- Duration
- 03:10
- Composer
- William Byrd
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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18 The Chestnut - The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Autumn 02:15
- Track
- 18
- Title
- The Chestnut - The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Autumn
- Duration
- 02:15
- Composer
- Anonymous, Henry Purcell
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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19 Ayres for the Violin, Book 2: Ayres in G Minor: Aria 01:06
- Track
- 19
- Title
- Ayres for the Violin, Book 2: Ayres in G Minor: Aria
- Duration
- 01:06
- Composer
- Nicola Matteis
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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20 The English Dancing Master: Cold and Raw 01:39
- Track
- 20
- Title
- The English Dancing Master: Cold and Raw
- Duration
- 01:39
- Composer
- John Playford
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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21 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: When a cruel long winter has frozen the earth 02:05
- Track
- 21
- Title
- The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: When a cruel long winter has frozen the earth
- Duration
- 02:05
- Composer
- Henry Purcell
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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22 Remember, O Thou Man 03:10
- Track
- 22
- Title
- Remember, O Thou Man
- Duration
- 03:10
- Composer
- Thomas Ravenscroft
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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23 The English Dancing Master: Virgin Queen - An Italian Rant 01:22
- Track
- 23
- Title
- The English Dancing Master: Virgin Queen - An Italian Rant
- Duration
- 01:22
- Composer
- John Playford
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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24 The Division of Violin: A Division on a Ground 03:07
- Track
- 24
- Title
- The Division of Violin: A Division on a Ground
- Duration
- 03:07
- Composer
- Henry Eccles
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour
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25 Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339, "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day": Here the deities approve 04:05
- Track
- 25
- Title
- Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339, "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day": Here the deities approve
- Duration
- 04:05
- Composer
- Henry Purcell
- Ensemble
- Le Tendre Amour