Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G Major, Op. 6, HWV 319
L’Allegro, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! loathed melancholy"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! vain deluding Joys"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
L’Allegro, Air "Come, thou goddess, fair and free"
Il Penseroso, Air "Come rather, goddess, sage and holy"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, 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"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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"
Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 3 in E Minor, Op. 6, HWV 321
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence, vain deluding Joys"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air "But O! sad virgin, that thy power"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Recitative "Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, 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"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Chorus "There let the pealing organ blow"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Organo ad libitum & Chorus "These pleasures, Melancholy, give"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, William Whitehead, Paul McCreesh
Handel: Organ Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 7, HWV 306
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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Jeremy Ovenden, Gillian Webster
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes