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, 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"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Air & Chorus "Come, but keep thy wonted state"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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"
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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
Il Penseroso, Air "But O! sad virgin, that thy power"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
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"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, 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, 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"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Jeremy Ovenden
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes