O tuneful voice : songs and duets from late 18th-century England
1 compact disc (1991)
Emma Kirkby, soprano ; Rufus Müller, tenor ; Timothy Roberts, fortepiano, harpsichord ; Frances Kelly, harp. Principally songs with piano, harpsichord, or harp acc.; sung in English. Recorded 17-19 April 1991, Forde Abbey, Dorset. CONTENTS: O tuneful voice [EK] / Haydn -- Elegy / Arnold -- Invocation to Nature [EK] / Pinto -- The curfew [EK] / Storace -- The lark sings high in the cornfield [EK] / Linley -- She never told her love / Haydn -- Minuetto in A flat [piano solo] / Pinto -- Think not, my love, when secret grief [EK] / Linley -- The day that saw thy beauty rise / Jackson -- A shepherd lov'd a nymph so fair / Pinto -- Hope and love [EK] / Shield -- Ye balmy breezes, gently blow / Shield -- 'Tis only no harm to know it, you know [EK] / Shield -- Sailor's song / Haydn -- From thee, Eliza, I must go / Pinto -- Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, maman' : [harp solo] / Cardon -- The emigrant / Hook -- Time has not thinn'd my flowing hair [duet] / Jackson -- Go, lovely rose / Salomon -- Eloisa to Abelard / [EK] Pinto -- Why still before these streaming eyes [EK] / Salomon -- O tuneful voice / Salomon.
