Boston Camerata ; Joel Cohen, conductor, baritone, and lute
For voices and instruments, alone or in combination ; the vocal works are sung in English, French, German, Italian, and Latin.
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Program notes by Joel Cohen in English with French and German translations and texts in English, French, German, Italian, and Latin, with French, English, and German translations of the 1st work (originally in Latin) and French paraphrases and brief summaries in German and English of the remaining works as needed, on container.
Recorded May 1981 at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino / Josquin des Prés -- Un livre d'heures. La nuict froide et sombre / Roland de Lassus ; Quando l'alba in oriente / Claudio Monteverdi ; Come away, come sweet love / John Dowland ; Ce moys de may / Clément Janequin ; Wohl kumbt der Mai / Ludwig Senfl ; Vezzosi augelli / Giaches de Wert ; Scaldava il sol / Luca Marenzio ; It fell on a summer's day / Thomas Campion ; Courante / Michael Praetorius ; Come, sable night / John Ward -- Danses Villageoises. Chelsea reel ; All in a garden green ; An old man is a bedful of bones ; The chirping of the nightingale ; The friar and the nun ; Daphne ; Jenny, pluck pears ; Goddesses ; Nonesuch / John Playford -- Bestiaire. Der Hund / anonyme (XVIe [siècle]) ; Die Weiber mit den Flöhen / Ludwig Senfl ; Three blind mice ; The fox / Thomas Ravenscroft ; The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons ; Der Gutzgauch / Lorenz Lemlin ; Contrappunto bestiale / Adriano Banchieri -- Laudibus in sanctis / William Byrd -- Tempus adest floridum / anonyme (Suède XVIe [siècle])