L’Allegro, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! loathed melancholy"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! vain deluding Joys"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Air "Come, thou goddess, fair and free"
Il Penseroso, Air "Come rather, goddess, sage and holy"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Air & Chorus "Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee"
L’Allegro, Air & Chorus "Come and trip it as you go"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Come, pensive nun, devout and pure"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air & Chorus "Come, but keep thy wonted state"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Recitative "Hence loathed Melancholy"
L’Allegro, Air "Mirth, admit me of thy crew"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "First, and chief, on golden wing"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air "Sweet bird, that shuns’t the noise of folly"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Recitative "If I give thee honour due"
L’Allegro, Air "Mirth, admit me of thy crew"
Il Penseroso, Air "Oft on a plat of rising ground"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Recitative "If I give thee honour due"
L’Allegro, Air "Let me wander, not unseen"
L’Allegro, Air & Chorus "Or let the merry bells ring round"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence, vain deluding Joys"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air "But O! sad virgin, that thy power"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Recitative "Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Chorus "Populous cities please me then"
L’Allegro, Air "There let Hymen oft appear"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Me, when the sun begins to fling"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air "Hide me from day’s garish eye"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Air "I’ll to the well-trod stage anon"
L’Allegro, Air "And ever against eating cares"
L’Allegro, Air & Chorus "These delights if thou canst give"
Il Penseroso, Recitative "But let my due feet never fail"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Chorus "There let the pealing organ blow"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Organo ad libitum & Chorus "These pleasures, Melancholy, give"
William Whitehead, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Moderato, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! boast not, ye profane"
Il Moderato, Recitative Accompany'd & Chorus "Come, with native lustre shine"
Il Moderato, Air "Come, with gentle hand restrain"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Moderato, Recitative "No more short life they then will spend"
Il Moderato, Air "Each action will derive new grace"
L’Allegro & il Penseroso, Duet "As steals the morn upon the night"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Jeremy Ovenden
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes