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Musicians In Ordinary : Sleep Wayward Thoughts
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The Musicians In Ordinary for the Lutes and Voices are dedicated to the solo song of the Renaissance and Baroque.
Genre: Classical: Traditional
Release Date: 2005
Sleep Wayward Thoughts Record Label: MIO
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Prelude - Anon. 0:22 $0.99
Come heavy sleep - John Dowland 3:56 $0.99
Beauty sat bathing - Robert Jones 2:09 $0.99
O Death rock me asleep - Anon. 2:09 $0.99
Come cheerful day - Thomas Campion 3:42 $0.99
Mr. Dowlands Midnight - Dowland 1:26 $0.99
Orlando sleepeth - Dowland 0:59 $0.99
Sleep, wayward thoughts - Dowland 3:33 $0.99
On a time the amorous Silvy - John Attey 3:23 $0.99
Goodnight - Clement Cotton 4:30 $0.99
Beauty sat bathing - William Corkine 2:37 $0.99
Weep you no more sad fountains - Dowland 4:54 $0.99
Nunc Dimittis - Richard Allison 2:17 $0.99
It fell on a summer's day - Campion 2:16 $0.99
The cypress curtain of the night - Campion 4:54 $0.99
Go to bed sweet muse - Jones 1:57 $0.99
Now to bed - Anon. 2:31 $0.99
Sleep angry beauty - Campion 2:56 $0.99
Thinkst thou then by thy feigning sleep - Dowland 2:00 $0.99
A Dream - Dowland 5:05 $0.99
Bara Fausta's Fream - Anon. 0:51 $0.99
Rest sweet Nymphs - Francis Pilkington 3:50 $0.99
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Album Notes

What a good idea for a compilation ... an intelligent, feeling interpretation of the lyrics ... Wholenote Magazine

The Musicians In Ordinary take their name from the name of the title given at court to the singers and lutenists who performed in the most intimate chambers of England's Stuart monarchs.

Like us, the Elizabethans and Jacobeans had contradictory feelings about sleep. They, as we, want it to come more quickly and more often but are suspicious of this state where what we now call our 'subconcious' is given free rein.

We present a programme of songs that takes a close look at Sleep, and his relationships with his brother Death and his cousin Love; from peaceful slumberers to cavorting lovers and all those melancholy men who toss and turn in their beds to a queen under death sentence

Hallie Fishel - soprano
John Edwards - lute

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