Songs of Milton's Time

When David heard that Absalom was slain

Portrait of David by Guy Rowe

Sorrow, Stay!
by John Dowland

 

 

When to her lute Corinna Sings,
by Thomas Campion

Sung by Renee Soames

Burnt offerings
I offer to Thee

Last two stanzas set by John Milton, Sr.

Fair Orian in the morn
by John Milton, Sr.

from Morley's The Triumphs of Oriana, 1601

Blow out the trumpet
by Martin Peerson

Sung by New York Pro Musica,
directed by Noah Greenberg

 

Come again, sweet love doth now invite
by John Dowland

Sung by Janet Baker

Venus and Adonis, Titian

Come away, come, sweet love
by John Dowland

Sung by Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels, directed by Safford Cape

Pleasures of Love, Watteau

A Catch:
See how in gath'ring of their may
by William Lawes

Sung by the Sine Nomine Singers
conducted by Harry Saltzman

Hawthorn in Bloom

Whither runneth
my sweetheart?
by John Bartlett

Sung by New York Pro Musica,
directed by Noah Greenberg

Susannah Fair
by William Byrd