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CDA66497

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Recording details: April 1991
Forde Abbey, Somerset, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: October 1991
Total duration: 72 minutes 44 seconds

'This is a record for every library, and for lovers of song. Recommended' (Fanfare, USA)

The English Orpheus
O tuneful voice
Songs and duets from late 18th-century London
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rufus Müller (tenor), Timothy Roberts (fortepiano)
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O tuneful voice Hob XXVIa:42  [4'26]  Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
2
Elegy   When young life's journey I began  [3'05]  Samuel Arnold (1740-1802)
Frances Kelly (harp)
3
Invocation to Nature   Nature! sweet mistress of the pensive mind  [4'06]  George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806)
4
The curfew  [4'19]  Stephen Storace (1762-1796)
Frances Kelly (harp)
5
The lark sings high in the cornfield  [2'46]  Thomas Linley (1733-1795)
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
6
She never told her love Hob XXVIa:34  [3'32]  Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
7
Minuetto in A flat  [2'44]  George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806)
8
Think not, my love, when secret grief  [3'35]  Thomas Linley (1733-1795)
Frances Kelly (harp)
9
The day that saw thy beauty rise  [3'08]  William Jackson (1730-1803)
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
10
A shepherd lov'd a nymph so fair  [1'50]  George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806)
11
Hope and love   When love was a stranger  [2'16]  William Shield (1748-1829)
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
12
Ye balmy breezes, gently blow  [4'03]  William Shield (1748-1829)
Frances Kelly (harp)
13
'Tis only no harm to know it, you know   I'd fain ask you a this, but in pops a that  [2'06]  William Shield (1748-1829)
14
Sailor's song Hob XXVIa:31   High on the giddy bending mast  [2'15]  Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) English
15
From thee, Eliza, I must go  [3'05]  George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806)
16
Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'  [4'39]  Jean-Baptiste Cardon (1760-1803)
Frances Kelly (harp)
17
The emigrant   O talk not to me of my country's delights  [4'49]  James Hook (1746-1827)
Frances Kelly (harp)
18
Time has not thinn'd my flowing hair  [2'33]  William Jackson (1730-1803)
Frances Kelly (harp)
19
Go, lovely rose  [3'08]  Johann Peter Salomon (1745-1815)
20
Eloisa to Abelard   Soon as the letters trembling I unclose  [3'44]  George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806)
21
Why still before these streaming eyes  [2'55]  Johann Peter Salomon (1745-1815)
22
O tuneful voice  [3'40]  Johann Peter Salomon (1745-1815)
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