CD 1 : Madrigaux de Thomas Morley et John Wilbye
Thomas Morley
Now is the month of Maying
In dew of roses
Shoot, false Love, I care not
Miraculous love's wounding
Hark, alleluia cheerly
Arise, get up, my dear
Leave this tormenting
I go before, my darling
Say, gentle nymphs
Good morrow, fair ladies
April is in my mistress' face
Though Philomela lost her love
Hard by a crystal fountain
Whiter away, so fast
I follow, lo, the footing
O grief!
When, lo, by break of morning
Besides a fountain
Fire! Fire! my heart
John Wilbye
Thus saith my Cloris bright
Happy, O happy he, who not affecting
Ye that do live in pleasures plenty
Ah, cannot sigh, nor tears nor aught else move thee
Stay, Corydon, thou swain
Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares
Lady your words do spite me
As fair as morn, as fresh as May
Weep, weep, mine eyes, my heart can take no rest
CD 2 : École anglaise de madrigaux
Thomas Morley : Ho! Who comes here?
Thomas Weelkes : Cease sorrows now
Thomas Vautor : Mother, I Will Have a Husband
Richard Edwards : In going to my naked bed
Thomas Weelkes
To shorten Winter’s sadness
O Care, thou wilt despatch me
John Bartlett : Of all the birds that I do know
John Bennet : All creatures are now merry-minded
Thomas Morley : Sweet nymph
John Bennet : Weep O mine eyes
Thomas Weelkes : The Ape, the Monkey and the Baboon
John Wilbye : Oft have I vowed
Thomas Weelkes : Strike it up, Tabor
John Ward : Hope of my heart
Thomas Wilbye : Sweet honey-sucking bees
Robert Johnson : Defiled is my name
Thomas Weelkes : On the plains, fairy trains
Richard Edwards : When griping griefs
Thomas Weelkes : All at once well met
Thomas Tallis : Like as the doleful dove
Anonyme : The bitter sweet
John Wilbye : Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Shepherd : O happy dames
Thomas Weelkes : Young cupid hath proclaimed
Anonyme : The happy life (My friends, the thing I smile to see)
Thomas Weelkes : Thule, the Period of Cosmography
CD 3 : The silver swan
Orlando Gibbons : The silver swan
Francis Pilkington
Rest, sweet nymphs
Diaphenia like the daffdowndilly
Orlando Gibbons : What is our life
William Byrd : Though Amaryllis dance
Orlando Gibbons : Ah! Dear heart
William Byrd : This sweet and merry month
Orlando Gibbons : Dainty, fine bird
Francis Pilkington
Have I found her
O softly singing lute
Amyntas with his Phyllis fair
John Ward
Retire, my troubled soul
Upon a bank with roses
Out from the vale
Anonyme : I smile to see how you devise
Robert Johnson : Benedicam Domino
John Wilbye
Lady, when I behold
Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
I always beg, yet never am relieved
Thus love commands that I in vain complain me
Oft I have vowed how dearly I did love thee
Come, shepherd, swains, that wont to hear me sing
The lady Oriana
Robert Jones
Fair Oriana seeming to wink at folly
CD 4 : Chefs-d'œuvre des madrigaux français et anglais
Guillaume Costeley
Allons gay bergeres
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Pierre Passereau : Il est bel et bon
Clément Janequin : Le chant des oiseaux
Josquin Desprez
La déploration de de Jehan Ockeghem
Parfons regretz
Orlando di Lasso : La nuit froide et sombre
Clément Janequin
Le chant de l'Alouette
Ce moys de may
La bataille de Marignan
Au joly boys
Orlando di Lasso : Mon cœur se recommande à vous
William Byrd : Lullaby, my sweet little baby
Thomas Morley : Now is the month maying
Thomas Tomkins : When David heard that Absalom was slain
CD 5 : Claudio Monteverdi : Madrigali amorosi - Chefs-d'œuvres des madrigaux italiens
Claudio Monteverdi
Altri canti di Marte e di sua schiera
Vago augelletto che cantando vai
Mentre vaga angioletta
Ninfa che scalza il piede e sciolto il crine
Cantato à voce piena, alla francese "Dolcissimo uscignolo"
Cantato à voce piena, alla francese "Chi vole aver felice e lieto il core"
Lamento della Ninfa
Perchè te’n fuggi, o Fillide?
Non partir, ritrosetta
Su, su, su, pastorelli vezzosi
Luca Marenzio : Cedan l'antiche tue chiare vittorie
Orlando di Lasso : Matona mia cara
Luca Marenzio
Scaldava il Sol
Solo e pensoso
Leggiadre ninfe
Cipriano de Rore : Anchor che col partire
Jacob Arcadelt : Il bianco e dolce cigno
CD 6 : Madrigaux de Claudio Monteverdi et Carlo Gesualdo
Claudio Monteverdi
Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata
Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena
Lamento d'Arianna
Oimé il bel viso, ohimé il soave sguardo
Baci soavi e cari
Ecco mormorar l'onde
A un giro sol de bell'occhi lucenti
Non piu guerra, pietate
Sfogava con le stelle
Carlo Gesualdo
Beltà poi che t'assenti
Ecco morirò dunque… Hai, gia mi disco loro
Morro lasso al mio duolo
Alfred Deller (1912-1979), contreténor
The Deller Consort