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