Wilbye: Draw On Sweet Night / I Fagiolini

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Label
Coro
Release Date
April 1, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Wilbye, John
    • PERFORMER
      I Fagiolini
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 01, 2022
    • UPC
      828021619021
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16190
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. The Second Set of Madrigals: XXVIII. Draw on, sweet night

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    2. The First Set of English Madrigals: IV. Weep, O mine eyes

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    3. The First Set of English Madrigals: XI. Adieu, sweet Amaryllis

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    4. The Second Set of Madrigals: XVII. Sweet honey-sucking bees - Yet, sweet, take heed

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    5. The First Set of English Madrigals: XXV. Thou art but young thou sayst

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    6. The First Set of English Madrigals: XXIV. Cruel, behold my heavy ending

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    7. The Second Set of Madrigals: VII. I live, and yet methinks - VIII. There is a jewel

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    8. The Second Set of Madrigals: XIV. I love alas, yet am not loved

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    9. The Second Set of Madrigals: XIX. Oft have I vowed

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    10. The Second Set of Madrigals: XX. Down in a valley - Hard destinies

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    11. The First Set of English Madrigals: XXII. When shall my wretched life?

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    12. The Second Set of Madrigals: VI. O what shall I do?

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    13. The Second Set of Madrigals: XII. Love not me for comely grace

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    14. The Second Set of Madrigals: XVI. Happy, O happy he

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    15. The Second Set of Madrigals: XXII. There where I saw her lovely beauty painted

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    16. The First Set of English Madrigals: XV. Lady, your words do spite me

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    17. The Second Set of Madrigals: XXV. O wretched man

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    18. The First Set of English Madrigals: VI. Ye restless thoughts

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    19. The First Set of English Madrigals: IX. Lady, when I behold

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    20. The First Set of English Madrigals: X. Thus saith my Cloris bright

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    21. The Second Set of Madrigals: XXI. Weep, weep mine eyes

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    22. The First Set of English Madrigals: XIX. Flora gave me fairest flowers

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    23. The Second Set of Madrigals: XVIII. All pleasure is of this condition

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    24. The First Set of English Madrigals: XXIII. Of joys and pleasing pains - My throat is sore

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

    25. The Second Set of Madrigals: XXVI. Where most my thoughts - Despiteful thus onto myself

      Composer: John Wilbye

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini

      Conductor: Robert Hollingworth


Winner of a 2022 German Record Critics’ Award!

To welcome the spring, British ensemble I Fagiolini puts aside its beloved Monteverdi to uncover its own national heritage: the best of John Wilbye's classic Golden Age madrigals. Whilst his oeuvre may have been small (just 75 works that we know of and most just a couple of minutes long), time and again, in these exquisite cameos, Wilbye delivers what might be reckoned the ultimate madrigal experience. The plangent dissonance of ‘Draw on, sweet night’ and ‘Weep, weep, mine eyes’ perfectly evoke English melancholy, while ‘Sweet honey-sucking bees’ and ‘Adieu, sweet Amaryllis’ are such sheer pleasure to sing that many listeners will scrabble to unearth old scores. This album is, in a nutshell, 75 minutes of madrigalian bliss! Rediscover or enjoy anew this central part of English choral culture, strangely out of fashion for so long, sung by a group that has matured into the repertoire like a good wine.