Boyce: Solomon

CDA66378

Recording details: September 1989
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: June 1990
Total duration: 76 minutes 0 seconds

CD COMPACT AWARD, SPAIN

'A delicious discovery. Music of thrilling sensuality' (The Sunday Times)

'A delightful disc' (The Guardian)

'The 76 minutes pass all too quickly for this enthralled listener' (American Record Guide)

'Absoluta y sinceramente recomendable compacto' (CD Compact, Spain)

Absolutely admirable. I never tire of going back to this gem of a recording and can't think of a better introduction to the music of William Boyce' (Goldberg)

The English Orpheus

William Boyce (1711-1779)

Solomon

Bronwen Mills (soprano), Howard Crook (tenor), The Parley of Instruments

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	MP3	FLAC	ALAC
				Solomon
1	£0.80	£0.80	£0.80	Part 1 No 1, Overture: Largo – Allegro – Larghetto [6'10] Roy Goodman (conductor)
2	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Part 1 No 2, Chorus: Behold, Jerusalem, behold thy king (chorus) [4'23] The Parley of Instruments Choir, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3	£0.05	£0.05	£0.05	Part 1 No 3, Recitative: From the mountains, lo! he comes (She) [0'27] Roy Goodman (conductor)
4	£0.40	£0.40	£0.40	Part 1 No 4, Air: Tell me, lovely shepherd, where (She) [3'21] Roy Goodman (conductor)
5	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Part 1 No 5, Air: Fairest of the virgin throng (He) [2'19] Roy Goodman (conductor)
6	£0.05	£0.05	£0.05	Part 1 No 6, Recitative: As the rich apple, on whose boughs (She) [0'21] Roy Goodman (conductor)
7	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Part 1 No 7, Air: Beneath him ample shade I lay (She) [2'46] Roy Goodman (conductor)
8	£0.05	£0.05	£0.05	Part 1 No 8, Recitative: Who quits the lily's fleecy white (He) [0'35] Roy Goodman (conductor)
9	£0.75	£0.75	£0.75	Part 1 No 9, Air: Balmy sweetness, ever flowing (He) [5'51] Roy Goodman (conductor)
10	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Part 1 No 10, Recitative/Air: Let not my prince his slave despise (She) [4'17] Roy Goodman (violin), Roy Goodman (conductor)
11	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Part 1 No 11, Air: Fair and comely is my love (He) [3'40] Roy Goodman (conductor)
12	£0.15	£0.15	£0.15	Part 1 No 12, Recitative: Forbear, O charming swain, forbear! (She) [1'10] Roy Goodman (conductor)
13	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Part 1 No 13, Air: O fill with cooling juice the bowl (She) [3'24] Roy Goodman (conductor)
14	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Part 2 No 1, Sinfonia: Allegro assai [2'48] Roy Goodman (conductor)
15	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Part 2 No 2, Recitative/Air: The cheerful spring begins today (He/She) [4'02] Roy Goodman (conductor)
16	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Part 2 No 3, Duet: Together let us range the fields (He/She) [3'59] Roy Goodman (conductor)
17	£0.05	£0.05	£0.05	Part 2 No 4, Recitative: How lovely art thou to the sight (He) [0'25] Roy Goodman (conductor)
18	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Part 2 No 5, Air: Let me, love, the bole ascending (He) [2'16] Roy Goodman (conductor)
19	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Part 2 No 6, Recitative: O that a sister's specious name (She) [0'40] Roy Goodman (conductor)
20	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Part 2 No 7, Air: Soft! I adjure you, by the fawns (She) [1'26] Roy Goodman (conductor)
21	£0.05	£0.05	£0.05	Part 2 No 8, Recitative: My fair's a garden of delight (He) [0'22] Roy Goodman (conductor)
22	£0.65	£0.65	£0.65	Part 2 No 9, Air with chorus: Softly rise, O southern breeze! (He) [5'00] The Parley of Instruments Choir, Sally Jackson (bassoon), Roy Goodman (conductor)
23	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Part 3 No 1, Arioso: Arise, my fair, the doors unfold (He/She) [3'41] Roy Goodman (conductor)
24	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Part 3 No 2, Recitative/Air: Obedient to thy voice I hie (She) [0'43] Roy Goodman (conductor)
25	£0.25	£0.25	£0.25	Part 3 No 3, Air: Ye blooming virgins, as ye rove (She) [1'49] Roy Goodman (conductor)
26	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Part 3 No 3, Chorus: Who is thy love, O charming maid! (Virgins) [0'40] The Parley of Instruments Choir, Roy Goodman (conductor)
27	£0.25	£0.25	£0.25	Part 3 No 5, Air: On his face the vernal rose (She) [2'05] Roy Goodman (conductor)
28	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Part 3 No 6, Arioso: This, O ye virgins, is the swain (She) [0'37] Roy Goodman (conductor)
29	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Part 3 No 7, Recitative: Sweet nymph, whom ruddier charms adorn (He) [0'42] Roy Goodman (conductor)
30	£0.10	£0.10	£0.10	Part 3 No 8, Recitative: O take me! stamp me on thy breast! (She) [0'45] Roy Goodman (conductor)
31	£0.65	£0.65	£0.65	Part 3 No 9, Duet and Chorus: Thou soft invader of the soul! (He/She) [5'16] The Parley of Instruments Choir, Roy Goodman (conductor)

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