L’Allegro, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! loathed melancholy"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! vain deluding Joys"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
L’Allegro, Air "Come, thou goddess, fair and free"
Il Penseroso, Air "Come rather, goddess, sage and holy"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, 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"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air & Chorus "Come, but keep thy wonted state"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, 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"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, 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"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
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"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Air "Hide me from day’s garish eye"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Chorus "There let the pealing organ blow"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Organo ad libitum & Chorus "These pleasures, Melancholy, give"
Gillian Webster, William Whitehead, 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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
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"
Jeremy Ovenden, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes