L’Allegro, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! loathed melancholy"
Il Penseroso, Recitative Accompany'd "Hence! vain deluding Joys"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
L’Allegro, Air "Come, thou goddess, fair and free"
Il Penseroso, Air "Come rather, goddess, sage and holy"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, 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, 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"
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"
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
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"
Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Il Penseroso, Air "Hide me from day’s garish eye"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, 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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, Gillian Webster
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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, 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"
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, 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, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gillian Webster, Paul McCreesh
Production
- Nicholas ParkerProducer
- William WhiteheadEditing Engineer
- Paul McCreeshEditing Engineer
- Neil HutchinsonBalance Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Nicholas ParkerEditing Engineer
- Jan WaterfieldEditing Engineer
- Christopher SucklingEditing Engineer
- William WhiteheadLiner Notes
- Paul McCreeshLiner Notes
- Benjamin EalovegaPhotography
- Christopher SucklingLiner Notes