Greene: Spenser's Amoretti / Hulett, Green, Pinardi

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Naxos
Release Date
December 11, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GREENE, MAURICE
    • PERFORMER
      Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green, Benjamin Hulet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 11, 2012
    • UPC
      747313289172
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572891
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. After so long a race

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    2. No. 2. Happy ye leaves

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    3. No. 3. Faire Eyes

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    4. No. 4. Ye tradefull merchants

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    5. No. 5. The rolling wheele

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    6. No. 6. The merry Cuckow

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    7. No. 7. How long shall this like dying life endure

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    8. No. 8. The Laurell leafe

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    9. No. 9. Like as a ship

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    10. No. 10. What guile is this

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    11. No. 11. Arion

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    12. No. 12. Sweet smile

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    13. No. 13. Marke when the smiles

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    14. No. 14. The Love which me so cruelly tormenteth

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    15. No. 15. Trust not the treason of those smiling lookes

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    16. No. 16. Fayre cruell

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    17. No. 17. Faire yee be sure

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    18. No. 18. Thrise happy she

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    19. No. 19. After long stormes

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    20. No. 20. Like as a huntsman

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    21. No. 21. Fresh Spring

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    22. No. 22. One day I wrote her name upon the strand

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    23. No. 23. Lacking my love

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    24. No. 24. Since I did leave the presence of my love

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green

    25. No. 25. Like as the Culver

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Performer: Benjamin Hulett, Giangiacomo Pinardi, Luke Green


The distinguished English composer Maurice Greene was appointed Master of the King’s Music in 1735. He soon composed a series of 25 sonnet settings taken from the collection of 89 Amoretti (‘little loves’) written by Edmund Spenser, one of the greatest poets of the Shakespearean age. These settings show Greene to have been a master of word-painting technique, and a subtle colourist with a sensitive ear for Spenser’s verse. This jewel of a collection is also historically important, as it can be considered one of the earliest song cycles in the history of English music.