Hyperion Records | 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
Total duration: 71 minutes 36 seconds

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The English Orpheus

Blow: Fairest Work of happy Nature

Songs and keyboard music by John Blow

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord/spinet/virginals), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)

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