Audio Recording Basil Rathbone presenting, in conjunction with the Consort Players, a program of Elizabethan poetry and music in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 29 and 30, 1962 Elizabethan poetry and music

Title

• Basil Rathbone presenting, in conjunction with the Consort Players, a program of Elizabethan poetry and music in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 29 and 30, 1962

Other Title

• Elizabethan poetry and music

Names

• Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967. prf
• Boatwright, Helen. prf
• White, Robert (Tenor) prf
• Beck, Sydney. arr cnd
• Consort Players. prf
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
• Library of Congress. Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation. fnd

Created / Published

• 1962.

Contents

• My Lord of Oxenfords maske : broken consort / William Byrd? -- A new philosophy / John Donne (Rathbone) -- The man in the moon : virginals solo / anonymous -- The world's a bubble / Francis Bacon (Rathbone) -- Where gripinge grefe : soprano, consort of viols / Richard Edwards -- If music and sweet poetry agree / Richard Barnfield ; to the Queen's gailliard [by] John Dowland (Rathbone, lute, pandora) -- If all these cupids : soprano, tenor, lute, bass viol / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- The Lord Souches maske ; Lavolto : broken consort / Thomas Morley? -- Have you seen but a white lily grow / Ben Jonson (Rathbone) -- Have you seen but a white lily grow : tenor, lute / anonymous -- How oft, when thou, my music / William Shakespeare ; to Fantasia [by] Orlando Gibbons (Rathbone, virginals) -- Scottish gigge : virginals solo / anonymous -- Excerpt from The life of Henry V, [act] I, [scene] ii / William Shakespeare (Rathbone) -- Goe from my window : broken consort / Richard Alison -- Joyne hands : soprano, tenor, broken consort : to See, mine own sweet jewel / [words and music] by Thomas Morley --
• The shepherds delight : soprano, tenor, consort of viols, virginals / John Dowland -- Sweet are the thoughts / Robert Greene (Rathbone) -- It fell on a summer's day : soprano, lute, bass viol / Thomas Campion -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe ([Rathbone]) -- The nymph's reply / Walter Raleigh (Rathbone) -- Sigh no more, ladies : soprano, tenor, bass viol / Thomas Ford? -- Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, V, iii / William Shakespeare (Rathbone) -- Michills galliard : broken consort / anonymous -- Greensleeves : tenor, virginals / anonymous -- The willow song : soprano, lute, bass viol / anonymous -- O mistresse mine : tenor, broken consort / Thomas Morley -- Excerpt from The tragical history of Dr. Faustus, xiv / Christopher Marlowe (Rathbone) -- Lachrimae pavin : broken consort / John Dowland -- The cries of London / anonymous (Rathbone, tenor, flute, consort of viols).

Headings

• -  English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
• -  Music--England--16th century
• -  Music--England--17th century

Notes

• -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation in the Library of Congress.
• -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
• -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 200.
• -  Basil Rathbone, reader ; Helen Boatwright, soprano ; Robert White, tenor ; the Consort Players (6 musicians performing on period instruments) ; Sydney Beck, director and musical arranger.
• -  Program includes the spoken and sung texts.
• -  Cataloged in part from the printed program.

Medium

• 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 3891

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770052

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770052

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