The Musicians In Ordinary for the lutes and voices

Musicians In Ordinary’s Debut CD

We are pleased to present a programme of songs and lute solos based on that favourite subject of Elizabethans, Sleep and his close colleagues, Love and Death. We have sleepers who are trying to avoid lovers, sleepers who are most co-operative with their lover’s advances, a song attributed to a queen under death sentence, young men dreaming of their lovers and plenty of tortured melancholy men who, like Shakespeare’s Jaques, toss and turn in their beds thinking of their troubles.

Prelude Come heavy sleep Beauty sate bathing O Deathe rock me asleepe Come chearfull day Mr. Dowlands midnight Orlando Sleepeth Sleep waiward thoughts On a time the amorous Silvy Goodnight Beauty sate bathing Weepe you no more sad fountains Nunc Dimittis It fell on a sommers day The sypres curtain of the night Goe to bed sweete muze Nowe to bed Sleepe angry beauty Thinkst thou then by thy fayning sleep A dream Bara Fausta’s dream Rest sweet nimphs Total Time 62:25 Click here to buy our CD online.

Listen

• O Death rock me asleep – Anon.
• Sleep, wayward thoughts – Dowland
• Goodnight – Clement Cotton
• Weep you no more sad fountains – Dowland
• It fell on a summer’s day – Campion
• The cypress curtain of the night – Campion
• A Dream – Dowland