In My Heart of Hearts: Music in Shakespeare's Plays

"If music be the food of love, play on" we read in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. Play on ― but what music should we play? No playwright in world literature has inspired more musical settings by important composers over the centuries than Shakespeare. It is clear that music’s role in Shakespeare's plays can hardly be overestimated. His stage directions call not only for song but also for instrumental sennets and tuckets ― sonatas and toccatas. In this recording, Hannah Morrison, Marnix De Cat and the Hathor Consort bring to life a wealth of sensual Renaissance sounds from the time of Elizabeth I in pieces that could well have been performed at the Globe Theatre.

1: Pavin Albarti
2: Two Gallyards
3: It Was a Lover and His Lass
4: Now Is the Month of May
5: Now Is the Month of Maying
6: Passamezzo Pavana, FVB56
7: O Mistress Mine
8: Under the Greenwood Tree
9: Malt's Come Downe, FVB150
10: Come Thou Monarch of the Vine
11: Heigh Ho Holiday
12: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
13: The Sighes
14: Sigh No More
15: My Lord of Oxenford's Maske
16: Allemana D'amor
17: Ruger
18: Ronda - La Represa
19: Brandeberges - La Represa
20: Where the Bee Sucks
21: The Fairie Rounde
22: The Night Watch
23: Jog On
24: Tarleton's Jig
25: When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
26: Nutmegs and Ginger/Come Unto These Yellow Sands
27: Fortune My Foe
28: Full Fathom Five
29: Desperada
30: Willow Song
31: O Death Rock Me Asleep
32: The Funeralles

Composer: John Wilson, William Byrd, Robert Johnson, John Playford, Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne

Number of Discs: 1

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