MAD SONGS: PURCELL, ECCLES, BLOW, ... - CATHERINE BOTT

L'AIR DE FOLIE DE LA RESTAURATION ANGLAISE (fin du XVII°s.)* Henry PURCELL: Bess of Bedlam (Playford: Choice Ayres and Songs) * John ECCLES: Must then a faithful lover go? * John WELDON: Reason, what art thou? * John ECCLES: Oh! Take him gently the pile * ANONYME: Mad Maudlin * H.PURCELL: From rosy bow'rs * John ECCLES: Let all be gay * John ECCLES: Restless in thought * John ECCLES: I burn, my brain consumes to ashes * Godfrey FINGER: While I with wounding grief * H. PURCELL; I'll saul upon the dog-star * Daniel PURCELL: Morpheus, thou gentle god * John ECCLES: Love's but the frailty of the mind * ANON.: Tom of Bedlam * H. PURCELL: Let the dreadful engines of eternal will * John ECCLES: Cease of Cupid to complain * H. PURCELL: Not all my torments * John BLOW: Lysander I pursue in vain.