Eighteenth-century English songs, such as were performed in Vauxhall Gardens & other public parks. Vocal texts chiefly anon. The last work is a solo secular cantata.

Compact disc.

Program notes by the singer & M. Ross, and vocal texts, inserted in container.

Recorded in the Concert Hall of Manchester University, Dec. 20-22, 1999.

Orpheus with his lute / Maurice Green [words, Shakespeare] (2:54)

Orpheus and Euridice / William Boyce (1:42)

How severe is my fate / William Croft (3:07)

Spring gardens / Boyce (3:04)

Belinda / John Eccles (1:14)

Celia the fair / George Monro (2:07)

The steadfast shepherd / James Hook (2:56)

A shepherd loved a nymph so fair / George Frederick Pinto (2:23)

The curlew tolls the bell / Stephen Storace (3:30)

Think not, my love / Thomas Linley (3:34)

Let no mortal sing to me / William Jackson (2:58)

Go lov'ly rose / Johann Peter Salomon (3:21)

Grant me, ye gods / John Blow (4:06)

What is it to us? / Blow (2:46)

Cupid, make your virgins tender / Daniel Purcell (4:36)

The non-parreill / Boyce (1:05)

Go, rose, my Chloe's bosom grace / Greene (1:42)

Jenny / Thomas Arne (3:14)

Cymon and Iphigenia / Arne [words, Dryden] (11 min.)

Dryden, John, 1631-1700 > Musical settings.

Songs, English > 18th century.