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CDA66646 - Blow: Fairest Work of happy Nature
Music-making on a terrace (c1670) by Jan Steen (c1626-1679)
Reproduced by permission of The Trustees, The National Gallery, London
CDA66646

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Recording details: January 1993
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: May 1993
DISCID: DA111512
Total duration: 71 minutes 36 seconds

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'Full of interest, rich in its varied pleasures and in the high standard of recording and performance' (Gramophone)

The English Orpheus
John Blow (1649-1708)
Fairest Work of happy Nature
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
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1
No more, the dear, lovely nymph's no more  [3'28]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)
2
Prelude in G  [1'05]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
3
The self-banish'd 'A Minuet'   It is not that I love you less  [1'38]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
4
Lovely Selena, innocent and free  [2'20] English
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals), Paula Chateauneuf (guitar)
5
Morlake Ground  [3'15]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
6
O turn not those fine eyes away  [4'14]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
7
Sett No 1 in D minor 'Suite'  [6'58]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
8
Fairest work of happy nature  [3'12]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
9
Flavia grown old   Why Flavia, why so wanton still?  [2'12]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
10
Ground in G minor  [4'37]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
11
Oh! that mine eyes would melt into a flood  [5'13]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)
12
Verse in G minor 'Voluntary'  [1'41]  Anonymous
Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)
13
O mighty God, who sit'st on high  [5'26]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)
14
Sett No 3 in A minor 'Suite'  [7'02]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
15
Sabina has a thousand charms  [2'43]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
16
Of all the torments, all the cares  [4'19]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)
17
Ground in C  [5'16]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)
18
No, Lesbia, you ask in vain 'Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, The Queen's Epicedium'  [6'57]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)
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