L’Allegro, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! loathed melancholy"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! vain deluding Joys"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
L’Allegro, Air "Come, thou goddess, fair and free"
Il Penseroso, Air "Come rather, goddess, sage and holy"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Air & Chorus "Come, but keep thy wonted state"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
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"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Air "Sweet bird, that shuns’t the noise of folly"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Air "But O! sad virgin, that thy power"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Recitative "Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
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"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Air "Hide me from day’s garish eye"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, 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"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Organo ad libitum & Chorus "These pleasures, Melancholy, give"
William Whitehead, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, 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"
Paul McCreesh, Jeremy Ovenden, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes