The Lass with the Delicate Air - Brandywine Baroque

The Lass with the Delicate Air features a variety of songs and music heard in the Pleasure Gardens of London in the 17th and 18th-centuries.

The Pleasure Gardens of London were ornamental grounds open to the public as a resort or amusement area and operated throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and into the nineteenth centuries. These gardens, particularly for the English, served as an important social centers— a place to relax from the day’s labors, to entertain family and friends, to court, to show off one’s fine clothes or gaze upon those of others, to solicit or keep assignations, to snatch purses, to pick pockets, or to pick fights. They were also places to partake of food and refreshments of all sorts, to dance and to hear concerts. The Lass with the Delicate Air features a variety of songs and music heard in the Pleasure Gardens of London in the 17th and 18th-centuries.

Brandywine Baroque
Karen Flint, director & harpsichord
Laura Heimes, soprano
Eileen Grycky, flute
Kimberly Reighley, flute & recorder
Elizabeth Field, violin
Douglas McNames, cello

Album Tracks

1. The Dust Cart Cantata - James Oswald
2. When the Maid whom we Love - Thomas Linley
3. In vain I try my ev'ry art - William Boyce
4. See, O see who here is come a maying - Thomas A. Arne
5. Choirs of Angels - George Frideric Handel SAMPLE MP3
6. Wedding is great Juno's Crown - Thomas Chilcot 

Sonata III in A major William Boyce from Twelve Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass
7. Largo 
8.  Fuga: Allegro assai
9.  Adagio 
10. Tempo di Minuetto
11. If the Swain we sigh for press us  - John O'Keeffe
12. To Blast a rival's happiness - John O'Keeffe
13. So shall the Lute and Harp awake - George F. Handel
14. In Cupid's fam'd School - Joseph Baildon
15. Michael O'Connor First Air & Jig - Turlough O'Carolan
16. The Lass With the delicate Air - Michael Arne SAMPLE MP3
17. The Larks shril Notes - Matthew Dubourg

Sonata I in a minor William Boyce from Twelve Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass
18. Largo
19. Fuga: Allegro- SAMPLE MP3
20. [Allegro ma non troppo]
 
21. The Night Was Dark- William Linley SAMPLE MP3
22. Virgins are like the fair Flow’r - Thomas A. Arne
23. No Pow'r on Earth - Thomas A. Arne
24. Dubourg's Maggott - Matthew Dubourg
25. When Young at the Bar - Thomas A. Arne
26. Was I a Shepherd's Maid - Charles Dibdin
27. The Soldier tir'd of Wars Alarms - Thomas A. Arne

Total Time 68:52