I forgot the title song, "O sweet woods the delight of solitarinesse" by
John Dowland. But Agnew sings only a bit of it, as I recall.
Roger Kuin
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From: tom bishop <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: October 13, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Recordings of Sidney's Songs
>Who was/were the composer(s) for these songs, if I may ask?
>
>
>>There are a number of Sidney songs on a very lovely 1995 recording by Paul
>>Agnew (tenor) and Christopher Wilson (lute), called _O Sweete Woods the
>>Delight of Solitariness: Love Songs and Sonnets of John Donne and Sir
Philip
>>Sidney_ (CD: Metronome MET CD 1006. The Sidney songs on it are: Astrophil
>>and Stella nos. VIII, IX, X and XI, and "The Fire to see my woes for anger
>>burneth" from _Certain Sonnets_. Well worth owning.
>>
>>Roger Kuin, English
>>York University, Toronto
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