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A Partial John Bennet Discography

AlbumTitle Subtitle Works Performers Record Label Catalog No
The Triumphs of Oriana Compiled by Thomas Morley 1. The Lady Oriana (John Wilbye); 2. Sing, Shepherds All (Richard Nicholson); 3. Lightly She Whipped O'er The Dales (John Mundy); 4. Calm Was The Air And Clear The Sky (Richard Carlton); 5. Fantasia No. 2 (Holborne); 6. Hence Stars Too Dim Of Light (Michael East)_ ; 7. Come, Gentle Swains And Shephards' Dainty Daughters (Michael Cavendish); 8. With Angel's Face And Brightness (Daniel Norcombe); 9. The Nymphs And Shepherds Danced (George Marson); 10. Galliard (Holborne); 11. All Creatures Now Are Merry Merry-Minded (John Bennett); 12. Fair Nymphs, I Heard One Telling (John Farmer); 13. Fair Oriana, Seeming To Wink At Folly set by (Robert Jones); 14. The Fauns And Satyrs Tripping (Thomas Tomkins); 15. Galliard No.8 (Holborne); 16. Round About Her Charret, With All-admiring Strains (Ellis Gibbons); 17. With Wreaths Of Rose And Laurel (William Cobbold); 18. Thus Bonny-boots The Birthday Celebrated (John Holmes); 19. Long Live Fair Oriana. (Hark did you ever hear?) (Ellis Gibbons); 20. Fantasia No. 3 (Holborne); 21. Arise, Awake, Awake (Thomas Morley); 22. Hark! Did Ye Ever Hear So Sweet A Singing? (Thomas Hunt); 23. Fair Orian In The Morn (John Milton); 24. With Angel's Face And Brightness (George Kirbye); 25. Come, Blessed Bird (Edward Johnson); 26. Galliard (Byrd); 27. Hard By A Crystal Fountain (Thomas Morley); 28. Fair Oriana, Beauty's Queen (John Hilton); 29. Fair Cytherea Presents Her Doves (John Lisley); 30. As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending (Thomas Weelkes) I Fagiolini Chandos Chaconne CHAN 0682
Italian and English Madrigals   1. Cantiam lieti cantiamo (Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi); 2. E d'un bel matin d'amore (Antonio Caprioli); 3. Quella bella e biancha mano (Antonio Caprioli); 4. Una leggiadra nimpha (Antonio Caprioli); 5. Venite amanti insieme (Loyset Compere); 6. Divini occhi sereni (Philippe Verdelot); 7. Con l'angelico riso, (Philippe Verdelot); 8. Madonna, il tuo bel viso (Philippe Verdelot); 9. Fuggi, fuggi, cor mio (Philippe Verdelot); 10. Si liet' e grata morte (Philippe Verdelot); 11. Se la dura durezza in la mia donna); (Jacques Arcadelt); 12. Ahime, dov' è'l bel viso); (Jacques Arcadelt); 13. Madonna, s'io v'offendo (Jacques Arcadelt); 14. Il bianco e dolce cigno (Jacques Arcadelt); 15. Donne, venète al ballo (Francesco Patavino); 16. Morir non può il mio cuore (Maddalena Casulana); 17. Se la mia vita (Luca Marenzio); 18. Mia benigna fortuna (Cipriano de Rore); 19. Anchor che col partire (Cipriano de Rore); 20. O sonno (Cipriano de Rore); 21. Chi la Gagliarda (Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola); 22. Madonna mia famme bon'offerta (Adriaan Willaert); 23. Medici noi siamo (Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola); 24. Quandro sarà mai quel zorno (Vincenzo Bell'Haver); 25. Matona mia cara (Roland de Lassus); 26. Tri ciechi siamo (Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola); 27. O Griefe, Even on the Bud (Thomas Morley); 28. When, Loe, by Breake of Morning (Thomas Morley); 29. Aprill Is in My Mistris Face (Thomas Morley); 30. Thule the period of cosmographie (Thomas Weelkes); 31. Sweet Nimphe, Come to Thy Lover (Thomas Morley); 32. Sweet Hony Sucking Bees, madrigal (John Wilbye); 33. Miraculous Love's Wounding (Thomas Morley); 34. Adew, Sweet Amarillis (John Wilbye); 35. Weep, O mine Eyes (John Bennet); 36. Silver Swanne (Orlando Gibbons); 37. O care wilt thou dispatch mee); (Thomas Weelkes); 38. Since Robin Hood (Thomas Weelkes); 39. Fyre and Lightning from Heaven (Thomas Morley); 40. Strike it up tabor, madrigal (Thomas Weelkes); 41. See, See the Shepheards' Queene (Thomas Tomkins); 42. Come, Sable Night (John Ward); 43. Sweet Suffolke Owle (Thomas Vautor); 44. In Nets of Goulden Wyers (Thomas Morley); 45. Draw on Sweet Night (John Wilbye); The Hilliard Ensemble Virgin Veritas x2 7243 5 61671 2
How The World Wags Social music for a 17th-century Englishman 1. JAMAICA or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's exact relation of all his Travels in Every Nation, his Famous Acts are all Shown Here as in this Story doth appear (Anon.) 2. GALLIARD (Maurice Webster) 3. WHO LIVETH SO MERRY (Thomas Ravenscroft) 4. THE SAINT TURNED SINNER or The Dissenting Parson's Text Under the Quaker's Petticoats (Anon.) 5. AYRE from Little Consort Suite No 1 in G minor (Matthew Locke) 6. MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN (Thomas Ravenscroft) 7. THE MILLER OF DEE (Anon.) 8. PACKINGTON'S POUND (Anon.) 9. POX ON YOU FOR A FOP (Henry Purcell) 10. THE HUNT IS UP (John Bennet) 11. ALMAIN (Cuthbert Hely) 12. THE JOLLY BARBER or The Barber fitted by a Wanton Miss of the Town (Anon.) 13. AS I WALKED FORTH or The Deceased Maiden Lover (Robert Johnson) 14. SELDOM CLEANLY to the tune 'Upon a Summer's Time' (Martin Parker) 15. SONATA IN G (William Croft) 16. TOMORROW THE FOX WILL COME TO TOWN (Thomas Ravenscroft) 17. THE WINCHESTER WEDDING (Thomas D'Urfey) 18. SARABAND from Little Consort Suite No 2 in C major (Matthew Locke) 19. GATHER YOUR ROSEBUDS (William Lawes) 20. A BELLMAN'S SONG (Thomas Ravenscroft) The City Waites Helios CDH55013
The Triumphs of Oriana Madrigals 1600 1. All creatures now; other works by East, Tomkins, Weelkes, Morley,Wilbye, Johnson, etc. Pro Cantione Antiqua, London dir. Ian Partridge Archiv 2533 347(LP)
Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music 1. Eliza, her name gives me honour, other works by Parsons, Farrant, Taverner, Tye, Byrd, Pattrick, Mundy, Tallis Rose Consort of Viols, Catherine King (ms) Naxos 8.554284
Cries of London Music in Honour of Queen Elizabeth I 1. All creatures now are merry minded; 2. Eliza, her name gives me honour; others by Robert Johnson, Edward Johnson, William Byrd, John Hilton, Morley, Ravenscroft, Whythorne, Tye, Dering Accademia Monteverdi dir. Denis Stevens Schwann Musica Mundi VMS 2038 (LP)



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