An excellent collection of 34 songs, especially useful in teaching students. This collection is a good alternative or companion to the standard Baroque Italian songs and arias. Now with recorded accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward.
Have You Seen But a White Lily Grow? (anon early 17th c.) It Was A Lover And His Lass (Morley) What If I Never Speed (Dowland) Willow Song (Anon 17th C) When Daisies Pied (Arne) Silver Swan, The (Gibbons) How Happy Art Thou (Lawes) Nymphs and Shepherds (Purcell) Pastime With Good Company (Anon. 16th c.) I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star (Purcell) Blow, blow thou winter wind (Arne) When Laura Smiles (Rossetter) If music be the food of love (First Version) (Purcell) I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly (Purcell) Rest Sweet Nymphs (Pilkington) Diaphenia (Pilkington) In Sherwood Lived Stout Robin Hood (Jones) As I Walked Forth One Summer Day (Johnson) Fain Would I Change That Note (Hume) Let Me Wander Not Unseen (Handel) Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (Dowland) Flow my tears (Dowland) Jack And Joan (Campion) Fair, if you expect admiring (Campion) Tell Me No More (Blow) Whither Runneth My Sweetheart? (Bartlet) Thou Soft Flowing Avon (Arne) Since First I Saw Your Face (Ford) Hark! The Echoing Air (Purcell) Where E'er You Walk (Handel) O Come, O Come, My Dearest (Arne) My Lovely Celia (Monro) Here Amid the Shady Woods (Handel) Come And Trip It (Handel)