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"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
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, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
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"
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, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
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"
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Air "Hide me from day’s garish eye"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster
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"
Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players
Il Penseroso, Organo ad libitum & Chorus "These pleasures, Melancholy, give"
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, William Whitehead, Gillian Webster
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"
Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Jeremy Ovenden
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes