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.
How Happy Art Thou (Lawes) Nymphs and Shepherds (Purcell) I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star (Purcell) Fair, If You Expect Admiring (Campian) Jack And Joan (Campian) Flow My Tears (Dowland) If Music Be The Food Of Love (Purcell) When Laura Smiles (Rosseter) Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow? (Anon 17th C) Pastime With Good Company (Anon 16th C) Diaphenia It Was A Lover And His Lass Hark! The Echoing Air Since First I Saw Your Face Thou Soft Flowing Avon Whither Runneth My Sweetheart? Tell Me No More Fair, If You Expect Admiring Jack And Joan Flow My Tears Weep You No More, Sad Fountains Let Me Wander Not Unseen Fain Would I Change That Note As I Walked Forth One Summer Day In Sherwood Lived Stout Robin Hood Rest Sweet Nymphs I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly If Music Be The Food Of Love When Laura Smiles Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Arne) Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow? What If I Never Speed The Silver Swan Silver Swan, The (Gibbons) When Daisies Pied (Arne) Willow Song (Anon 17th C) What If I Never Speed (Dowland) It Was A Lover And His Lass (Morley) Blow, blow thou winter wind (Arne) 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) 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) Pastime With Good Company I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star