Henry Lawes

About the artist

Henry Lawes (December 5, 1595 – October 21, 1662) was an English musician and composer. He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day. In 1626, Lawes was received as one of the gentlemen of the chapel royal, and held the position until the Commonwealth put a stop to church music. Nevertheless Lawes continued his work as a composer

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Psalm 8: Psalm VIII
Parting
Have You e’er seen the Morning Sun? (Arr. for Choir)
A Lady to a young Courtier
An Eccho
Tavola - In quel gelato core
Hymn to God the Holy Ghost
A Dialogue on a Kisse
Slide soft you silver floods
Sweet stay a while

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Psalm 8
I prithee send me back my heart
A Complaint against Cupid
Hymn to God the Son
Lawes: Ayres and Dialogues, Book III: No. 29, A Dialogue Upon a Kisse. "Among Thy Fancies Tell Me This" (Live)
Psalm VIII
Among Rosebuds
Select Ayres & Dialogues: Loves Sweet Repose
I rise and grieve
Select Ayres & Dialogues: The Selfe Banished
No Constancy in Man
Have you e’er seen the morning sun ?
Select Ayres & Dialogues: The Rose
Dissuasion from Presumption
A Dialogue Betwixt Time And A Pilgrime: Aged Man That Moves These Fields
Zadok the Priest
Legousin hai gunaikes (Anacreon)
That man is truly blest
Select Ayres & Dialogues: Have you e'er seen the morning sun
Sleep soft, you cold clay cinders
A Dialogue Upon A Kiss
Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute (original Greek)
Bid me but live, and I will live
Or you, or I, nature did wrong
Wert thou yet fairer than thou art
Divisions on a ground
When thou, poor excommunicate
Suffrance
Tregian’s ground
Away, away, Anacreon ('Anacreon's Ode Englished')
Orpheus' Hymn to God
No, no, fair heretic
Hymn to God the Father
I’m sick of love
Neither sights, nor tears, nor mourning
Hark, shepherd swains
Out upon it, I have lov’d
Wither are all her false oaths blown ?
No more shall meads be deck’d with flowers
Amarillis by a spring
Sweet stay awhile
Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute ('English'd, to be sung by a Basse alone)
Sing fair Clorinda
At dead low ebb of night
Courant
Almain/Corant 1/Corant 2 for two lutes
Amintor's Welladay
Lawes: Ayres and Dialogues, Book III: No. 29, A Dialogue Upon a Kisse. "Among Thy Fancies Tell Me This"
At dead low ebb of night ('A tale out of Anacreon')
Prelude
Division on John come kiss me now
The Excellency of Wine
Sweet stay awhile, why do you rise ?
Sitting by the Streams
Cloches de Mr Gaultier
Ariadne's Lament
A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle: Sweet Echo
Love Despis'd (In Love? Away, You Do Me Wrong)
A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle: From the Heav'ns Now I Fly
Zadok, The Priest
Sweet, Stay Awhile; Why Do You Rise?
My soul the great God's praises sings
Farley Castle "Her Virgin Eyes Saw God Incarnate Born"
A Dialogue on a Kiss
O tell me love ! O tell me fate !
Thee and thy wondrous deeds
Why so pale and wan, fond lover ?
Farley Castle "Most Glorious Lord of Life"
The Lark
Sweet Echo, Sweetest Nymph
A Funeral Anthem
The Angler's Song
Angler's Song
The Captive Lovers
Transcendent beauty
Inconstancie in Woman (I Am Confirm'd a Woman Can)
Sweet, stay awhile
The Rose (Go Lovely Rose)
Have you e'er seen the morning sun
Chloris dead, lamented by amintor
Sweet Echo
Oh Sweet Woods, The Delight Of Solitariness
Have you e'er seen the morning sun?
Slide Soft, You Silver Floods
Amarillis, By A Spring
Sweet Echo, Sweetest Nymph That Liv'st Unseen
Coridon to His Phillis (Come Lovely Phillis)
Tavola "In quel gelato core"
O tell me love! O tell me fate!
Tavola: In quel gelato core

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