Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan Spirit Of Gambo

• Orlando Gibbons: (1583 - 1625):
• 1 What Is Our Life 04:52
• 2 I - Fair Ladies That to Love Captived Are, II - Mongst Thousands Good 04:16
• 3 Fair Is the Rose, yet Fades with Heat or Cold 03:00
• 4 Daintly Fine Bird 02:00
• 5 Now Each Flowery Bank of May 03:16
• 6 Lais Now Old, That Erst Attempting Lass 02:23
• 7 I - How Art Thou Thral'd, Ii - Farewell All Joys 05:01
• 8 The Silver Swan 03:45
• 9 I - Nay Let Me Weep, II - Ne'er Let the Sun with His Deceiving Light, III - Yet If That Age Had Frosted over His Head 07:57
• 10 Ah, Dear Heart Why Do You Rise? 01:29
• 11 Trust Not T Much Fair Youth Unto Thy Feature 03:07
• 12 O, That the Learned Poets of This Time 02:25
• 13 I - I Weigh Not Fortune's Frown nor Smile, II - I Tremble Not at Noise of War, III - I See Ambition Never Pleased, IV - I Fain Not Friendship Where I Hate 09:40
• Total Runtime 53:11

Info for Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan

The internationally recognized "The Spirit of Gambo" brings a world of forgotten sounds into life again. The exquisite tonal quality, the balance between instruments, and the richness of musical content captivate any listener, giving them the feeling of being directly transported back in time and leaving them deeply rewarded.

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was one of the most important and respected English musicians of his time, both as a virtuoso on keyboard instruments and even more so as a composer. His polyphonic vocal music works in particular achieved great fame early on. Compared to his sacred compositions, the amount of secular vocal music is rather small. His only book of madrigals was published in 1612. Gibbons' madrigals are characterised by the use of polyphonic compositional style and some of the compositions in "Madrigals and Mottets" can be reasonably understood as solo singing with viol accompaniment. One of these "songs" is the well-known piece "The silver swan".

Claron McFadden, soprano
Aleksandra Anisimowicz, soprano
Freek Borstlap, viola da gamba
Ivanka Neeleman, viola da gamba
Thomas Baeté, viola da gamba
Gesina Liedmeier, viola da gamba
Gast:
Takeshi Sudo, viola da gamba

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