Ready your passport! We’re travelling to Merrie England. Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Dowland, all wrote music based on the folk tunes in the country pubs, the pageantry of royal ceremonies, and the images of their beautiful countryside. Come open your ears and walk with us through the pathways of England. Greensleeves, Turtle Doves, and Dame Janet Baker. Britannia rules the waves!
Merrie England
Playlist
Episode 1
Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34 (excerpt)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Previn
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
Telarc 80126
1:05
Dowland: My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home (excerpt)
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Lute Music Of John Dowland
Dorian 90148
:50
Anonymous: Maria
New York Polyphony
I Sing the Birth
Avie AV 2141
0:52
Perotin: Beata Viscera
New York Polyphony
I Sing the Birth
Avie AV 2141
1:54
Anonymous: Coventry Carol
New York Polyphony
I Sing the Birth
Avie AV 2141
2:29
Anonymous: English Dance
New York’s Ensemble For Early Music/Renz
Istanpitta II, Medieval Dances
Lemm 8022
1:56
Anonymous: Salve virgo virginum (An English Ladymass)
Anonymous 4
Portrait
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907210
2:36
Anonymous: Ther Is No Rose Of Swych Vertu (Carol)
Anonymous 4 -Portrait
Portrait
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907210
3:42
Henry VIII: Adieu! Madame et ma maistresse
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Music For The Courts Of Europe
London 417 524
2:28
Tallis: Gloria from Missa Puer Natus
Harry Christophers: The Sixteens
A Choral Pilgrimage – The Glories of Tudor Church Music
Linn 118
11:08
Byrd: Prelude and ground à 5
The Newberry Consort
A Candle in the Dark – Elizabethan Songs & Consort Music
Harmonia Mundi 907140
5:14
William Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses, Sons of Job
Alfred Deller
William Byrd & His Age / Deller, Wenzinger Consort Of Viols
Vanguard 8101
3:50
Richard Jones: Greensleeves Variations
New York Consort Of Viols
Live recording
4:49
Burns: Greensleeves (arr.)
Robert Burns
The Complete Songs Of Robert Burns Volume 5
Linn Records CKD 086
3:40
Purcell: Abdelazer, “Moor’s Revenge,” Z. 570
Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood
The Echoing Air – The Music Of Henry Purcell
Philips 446 081
1:18
Episode 2
Dowland: Pavan: ‘Lachrimae Antiquae’
Fretwork
Armada (Music From The Courts Of England And Spain)
Virgin 61821
4:14
Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
Mark Padmore, ten.; Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten: Nocturnal
Hyperion 67648
4:31
Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland, op.70 (excerpts)
Craig Ogden, guitar
Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten: Nocturnal
Hyperion 67648
8:08
Adès: Darknesse Visible (from John Dowland’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell)
Andreas Haefliger, pf.
Mozart – Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41
Avie 41
6:57
Locke: Broken Consort in D – Ayre & Saraband
Palladian Ensemble
An Excess Of Pleasure
Linn Record CKD010
1:35; 1:20
Purcell: “If music be the food of love” & “I attempt from love’s sickness to fly”
Kirkby, s. Hogwood, org & spinet; Rooley, lute; Campbell, vla. da G; Mackintosh, vn.
Purcell – Songs and Airs
Decca 4759109
3:26 & 1:24
Purcell: Two in One upon a Ground
Palladian Ensemble
The Venice Collection – An Excess Of
Linn 321
2:50
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas (excerpts)
Graham, s.; Bostridge, ten. Le Concert d’Astrée, European Voices/Haim (cond. & hpsd.)
Dido And Aeneas
Virgin 45605
7:52
Matteis: Bizzarie all’imor Scozzeze (Ground after the Scotch Humour)
Palladian Ensemble
An Excess Of Pleasure
Linn 10
4:12
Episode 3
Boyce: Symphony No.1 in B-flat major
Academy Of Ancient Music/Hogwood
Symphonies, Op. 2
L’oiseau-Lyre 436761
7:14
Arne: Rule Britannia
BBC Concert Orchestra & The Royal Choral Society/ Wordsworth; Della Jones,s.
The Last Night of the Proms
Philips 454172
4:48
Beethoven: Variations in D on “Rule Britannia” (excerpts)
Brendel,p.
Beethoven, Schumann – Theme and Variations II
Philips 432093
2:11
Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks-La Paix, La Rejouissance
Le Concert Des Nations/Savall
Water music ; Music for the royal fireworks
Astree ES9920
3:26
Haydn: Symphony 104, London, I
NY Phil./Bernstein
The Royal Edition, No 35 of 100: Joseph Haydn
Sony 47557
7:27
Mendelssohn: Symphonie Nr 3 a-moll op.56 Scotch, II
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Masur
Symphonies No. 3 ‘Scottish’ & No. 4 ‘Italian’
Teldec 43463
4:18
Sullivan: Macbeth – Overture
RTE Concert Orchestra/Penny
SULLIVAN: Macbeth Overture, Cello Concerto, Te Deum
EMI 764397-23
7:56
Gilbert/Sullivan: “I’m Called Little Buttercup” r. H.M.S. Pinafore
Pro Arte Orchestra/Sargent; Monica Sinclair, s.
SULLIVAN: Macbeth Overture, Cello Concerto, Te Deum
EMI 764397-23
1:48
Gilbert/Sullivan: “I am the Captain of the Pinafore” fr. H.M.S. Pinafore
Pro Arte Orchestra/Sargent; Baker, bar.
SULLIVAN: Macbeth Overture, Cello Concerto, Te Deum
EMI 764397-23
1:58
Elgar: Enigma Variations- Variation IX (Nimrod)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Babirolli
Enigma Variations, Falstaff
EMI 69185
3:34
Handel: Air fr. Water Music (excerpt)
ASMF/Marriner
Handel: Royal Fireworks, Water Music
Decca 414596
1:13
Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture (excerpt)
Berlin Phil/Abbado
CLAUDIO ABBADO
Complete Berlin Philharmonic Recordings
DG 289471
:26
Episode 4
Elgar: Symphony #2 In E Flat, Op. 63, I
London Symphony Orchestra/Davis
Elgar: Symphony No 2
LSO 0018
18:23
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85, II
London Symphony Orchestra/Previn; Ma, cello
Elgar, Walton: Cello Concertos
CBS 39541
5:00; 2:57
Tallis: “Why fum’th in Sight”
Theatre of Voices/Hiller
Tallis: Lamentations, Motets, String Music
HM 907154
3:45
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Symphony Orch. of Curtis Institute of Music/Previn
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia, Symphony No 5
EMI 55371
16:35
Vaughan Williams: “The Turtle Dove”
Finzi Singers/Spicer; Oxley, t.
Holst, Vaughan Williams: Choral Music
Chandos 9425
3:12
Episode 5
Holst: Ave Maria, Op. 9b
Finzi Singers/Spicer
Holst, Vaughan Williams: Choral Music
Chandos 9425
3:54
Holst: First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Banks
British Music for Concert Band
Angel EMI 724356561526
10:06
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
English Sinfonia/Dilkes
British Music for Concert Band
Angel EMI 724356561526
8:57
Bridge: Lament
English String Orchestra/Boughton
Finzi, Bridge, Parry, An English Suite
Nimbus NI 5366
4:45
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 2. Who Is Silvia? 4. O Mistress Mine
Bryn Terfel, t. Malcolm Martineau, p.
The Vagabond
DG445946 2
1:22, 2:11
Tavener: Tears of the Angels
BT Scottish Ensemble/Gould, vln and cond.
Tears Of The Angels
Linn 085
13:48
Britten: Finale fr. Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/André Previn
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
Telarc 80126
3:03
Davies: Farewell to Stromness
Peter Maxwell Davies, p
Davies: A Celebration of Scotland
Unicorn 9070
1:57
