I've no direct answer to David's query, but there's a useful website
to look at:
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/
This allows you to search for settings of poems by particular poets or
composers or even genres, and then alongside each song-setting it
pulls up there's a link that allows you to search for CDs that might
contain the particular song. I checked just now under S/Spenser, and
mostly what they have are contemporary settings of Spenserian texts
(including a bit of Despair's sermon to RCK) by composers such as Ned
Rorem and Mark Blitzstein, nothing for Gibbons, Lawes, et cie., but
the website itself announces it's not comprehensive.
Ken Gross
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:27 AM, David Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the Spenser Encyclopedia article on 'music', John Hollander mentions
> several settings for Spenserian verse (by George Kirbye, Richard Carlton,
> Orlando Gibbons, and Henry Lawes).
> Does anyone happen to know whether digital recordings of any or all of these
> are currently available?
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