April Cantelo • Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Songs LP

April Cantelo • Eighteenth Century Shakespearean Songs LP

Take, O take those lips away (Measure for measure) by J. Weldon
Hark, hark the lark (Cymbeline) by T. Chilcot
Flower of this purple dye (Midsummer night's dream) by J. C. Smith
Come away death (Twelfth night) by T. A. Arne
The willow song (Othello) by J. Hook
Blow, blow thou winter wind and Under the greenwood tree (As you like it) by T. A. Arne
Now the hungry lion roars (Midsummer night's dream) by W. Linley
Sigh no more, ladies (Much ado about nothing) by J. C. Smith
You spotted snakes (Midsummer night's dream) by J. C. Smith
O bid your faithful Ariel fly, by T. Linley
She never told her love (twelfth night) by J. Haydn
Orpheus with his lute (King Henry VIII) by M. Greene
Thou soft-flowing Avon, by T. A. Arne

April Cantelo, soprano - English Chamber Orchestra - Raymond Leppard, conductor and harpsichord

L'Oiseau-Lyre
1961 pressing
Mono, Microgroove
Program notes by Charles Cudworth on slipcase