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"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Air & Chorus "Come, but keep thy wonted state"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, 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"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air "Sweet bird, that shuns’t the noise of folly"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
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"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Air "But O! sad virgin, that thy power"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
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"
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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Organo ad libitum & Chorus "These pleasures, Melancholy, give"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, William Whitehead
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Jeremy Ovenden
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes