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

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

'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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No more, the dear, lovely nymph's no more [3'28]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)

Prelude in G [1'05]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

The self-banish'd 'A Minuet' It is not that I love you less [1'38]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)

Lovely Selena, innocent and free [2'20] English
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals), Paula Chateauneuf (guitar)

Morlake Ground [3'15]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

O turn not those fine eyes away [4'14]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

Sett No 1 in D minor 'Suite' [6'58]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

Fairest work of happy nature [3'12]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)

Flavia grown old Why Flavia, why so wanton still? [2'12]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

Ground in G minor [4'37]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

Oh! that mine eyes would melt into a flood [5'13]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)

Verse in G minor 'Voluntary' [1'41] Anonymous
Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)

O mighty God, who sit'st on high [5'26]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)

Sett No 3 in A minor 'Suite' [7'02]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

Sabina has a thousand charms [2'43]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

Of all the torments, all the cares [4'19]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Timothy Roberts (organ/regal)

Ground in C [5'16]
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals)

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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