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Songs of Love for St. Valentine’s Day

Program: #87-06🎁   Air Date: Feb 08, 1987

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In honor of St. Valentine's Day, host Robert Aubry Davis celebrates five centuries of romantic music.

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NOTE: This classic show has recently been rescued and digitized from an ancient tape. The playlist below was originally typed or handwritten; if you notice any errors in our transcription, please let us know.

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  1. JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Mille regretz. (Claude Deboves, lute). Harmonia Mundi CD HMC 90.1279.
  2. ROLAND DE LASSUS: Je l'ayme bien. (Vocal Arts Ensemble/Richard Levitt). Counterpoint/Esoteric LP 5601.
  3. GUIRAUT DE BORNELH: Reis glorios. (Joseph Sage, countertenor/Ars Antiqua de Paris). Janequin cassette 1001.
  4. Anon.: Brid one breere. (Paul Hillier, baritone/A Noyse of Musitians). Plant Life LF PER-043.
  5. GILLES BINCHOIS: Amoreux suy. (Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels/Safford Cape). Bach Guild LP BG-634.
  6. GUILLAUME DUFAY: Pour l'amour de ma doulce amye. (Stanley Buetens Lute Ensemble). Nonesuch LP H-71120.
  7. BERNART DE VENTADORN: Can l'erba fresch'e.hl. (Paul Hillier, baritone, Stephen Stubbs, lute). Hyperion CD 66094.
  8. FRANCESCA CACCINI: La Pastorella.
    BARBARA STROZZI: Non pavento io non di te. (Carol Plantamura, soprano/Jürgen Hübscher, lute and theorbo). Leonarda LP LPI-123.
  9. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: Mentre vaga angioletta (from Boox VIII madrigals, text by Guarini). (Concerto Vocale Ensemble). Harmonia Mundi LP HM-1084.
  10. CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: L'Incoronazione di Poppea: Pur ti miro. (Helen Donath, Nerone/Elisabeth Söderström, Poppea/Concentus Musicus, Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt). Telefunken Das Alte Werk LP 6.35247.
  11. GIULIO CACCINI: Amarilli, mia bella. (Rene Jacobs, countertenor/Konrad Junghänel, theorbo). Harmonia Mundi LP 1183.
  12. JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer. (Hilliard Ensemble). Angel EMI LP S-38040.
  13. JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Mille regretz. (Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley). L'oiseau-lyre LP DSLO-203/6.
  14. JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Mille regretz. (Hilliard Ensemble). S-38040.
  15. JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Parfons regretz. (Deller Consort). private tape.
  16. WILLIAM CORNYSHE: Ah, robin, gentyl robin.
    JOHN WILBYE: Lady, When I behold the roses sprouting. (Deller Consort). Victrola LP VIC-1428.
  17. Anon.: How should I your true love know?; I will give my love an apple; Hey, ho, the wind and the rain. (Alfred Deller, countertenor/Desmond Dupre, lute) Vanguard LP 299-SD or VSD-729/30.

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