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The Queen's Goodnight

 

Charivari Agréable

Susanne Heinrich - Treble, Tenor and Bass Viols
Kah-Ming Ng - Keyboards
Lynda Sayce - Lute


What the critics said about other charivari agréable recordings:

   

“I love the rich sound they make in their own version of Louis Couperin's keyboard piece La Piémontoise.” Andrew McGregor, Radio 3 – CD Review

       

“Above all this comes across as a very good concert which will give much pleasure to its listeners. David Hansell, Early Music Review

   

"Fertile imagination, excellent musicianship and persuasive playing make it a real delight"

- Early Music News, November 2002


1 John Johnson (fl. 1579-1594): A Dump or The Queenes Treble [3:33]
2 John Dowland (1563-1626): A Pavion Solus cum sola. [4:21]
3 Anonymous: Robin is to the Greenwood gone [4:55]
4 Edward Johnson (fl. 1572-1601): A Medley. [3:56]
5 Richard Allison (b. 1560-70, d. before 1610): Allison's Knell. [4:26]
6 Anonymous: Artheres Dump [5:28]
7 Thomas Robinson (fl. 1589-1609): Twenty Waies upon the Bels [2:57]
8 Thomas Robinson: The Queenes good Night [1:53]
9 John Dowland: The most sacred Queene Elizabeth her Galliard [1:29]
10 Giles Farnaby (c. 1563-1640): Rest [1:39]
11 Tobias Hume (c. 1579-1645): Lamentations. [6:55]
12 William Byrd (1540-1623): The Bells [5:51]
13 Tobias Hume: Deth [6:50]
14 Tobias Hume: Life [1:19]
15 Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625): Fantasia [2:40]
16 William Corkine (fl. 1610-17) & Orlando Gibbons: Whoope, doe me no harme good man. [3:27]
17 John Johnson: The New Hunt is upp [3:40]
18 Anonymous: The Scottish Huntsupe & Jigg [3:35]
     
Total running time: [69:05]


Instrumentarium:

S Heinrich:

Treble viol (M D. Attwood 1993)
tenor viol (Renate Fink 1998)
6-string bass viol (M D. Attwood 2000)

KM Ng

Virginals (Malcolm Rose 1987 after H. Guarracino 1668)
Harpsichord (A Garlick 1977, after I. Ruckers 1638)
Chamber organ (V Woodstock 1996)

L Sayce

7-course lute (M Lowe 1998, after G. Gerle)

Acknowledgements:

The Principal, Fellows, and the chaplain (Revd Simon Oliver) of Hertford College, Oxford
Mr Fabio Torchio, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena
Dr Lucy Robinson for the loan of the tenor viol

Front cover:

‘Queen Elizabeth I’ by Quentin Massys the Younger, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, by kind permission of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali-Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio storico artistico e demoetnoantropologico di Siena e Grosseto

 
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Release date: 5th July 2002
Order code: SIGCD020
Barcode: 635212002025
 
 
 
 

Recorded:
    4th-6th April 2002
    Hertford College Chapel, Oxford

Production, editing & engineering:
    Adrian Hunter

Booklet Notes:
    Lynda Sayce

Translations:
    French: Isabel Moreton
    German: Arne Spohr

Text and translation editor:
    Christine Darby

Picture Research:
    Leo Stevenson

Booklet cover design:
    ATX Design Associates

Booklet layout and typesetting:
    Jan Hart

Copyright:
    © Copyright 2002 Signum Records Ltd

 

 

 

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