An Evening of Elizabethan verse and its music
Contributors: Greenberg, Noah; Wilbye, John, 1574-1638; Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?; Dowland, John, 1563?-1626; Tomkins, Thomas, 1572-1656; Wilbye, John, 1574-1638; Ward, John, 1571-1638; Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625; Jones, Robert, active 1597-1615; Jones, Robert, active 1597-1615; Jones, Robert, active 1597-1615; Ferrabosco, Alfonso, approximately 1575-1628; Ferrabosco, Alfonso, approximately 1575-1628; Weelkes, Thomas, approximately 1575-1623; Kirbye, George, approximately 1565-1634; New York Pro Musica Antiqua
Series: Columbia legendary performances; Columbia legendary performances
Publisher: Odyssey
Published: 1968
Language: eng
Subjects: English poetry; English Part songs; Early modern
Notes: Program notes by W.H. Auden on container.

Each poem followed by its musical setting. The composers: Weelkes, Jones, Wilbye, Ferrabosco, Morley, Kirbye, Dowland, Gibbons, Ward, and Tompkins.

W.H. Auden, reader; New York Pro Musica Antiqua; Noah Greenberg, conductor.

Recorded in 1954.
Table of contents: title: Tan ta ra cries Mars / Thomas Weelkes.; title: Sweet, if you like and love me still / Robert Jones.; title: Flora gave me fairest flowers / John Wilbye.; title: Come my Celia / Alfonso Ferrabosco.; title: Sweet Kate of late ; Through your strangeness / Robert Jones.; title: I saw my lady weeping / Thomas Morley.; title: Sweet honey sucking bees / John Wilbye.; title: Up then melpomene / George Kirbye.; title: In darkness let me dwell / John Dowland.; title: What is our life / Orlando Gibbons.; title: So so leave off this last lamenting kiss / Alfonso Ferrabosco.; title: Upon a bank with roses / John Ward.; title: When David heard that Absolom was slain / Thomas Tomkins.