Composer: William Jackson
Performer: Bernat Cabot, Charles Daniels, Cristina Trenchs, Emma Kirkby, Irene Mas Salom, Maria-Antònia Melià, Sylvia Serrano, Ars Musicae Mallorca
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0477
Release: 2018
Size: 722 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
12 Songs, Op. 4
01. No. 8. Let me approach my sleeping love
12 Songs, Op. 1
02. No. 12. Lanthe, the lovely joy of her swain
12 Canzonets, Op. 9
03. No. 1. Time has not thinn’d my flowing hair
12 Pastorals, Op. 15
04. No. 7. Lone minstrel of the midnight hour
12 Canzonets, Op. 9
05. No. 5. Ah! where does my Phillida stray?
12 Songs, Op. 4
06. No. 4. Ye shepherds give ear to my lay
12 Songs, Op. 1
07. No. 3. For ever Fortune wilt thou prove
08. No. 9. ‘Twas when the seas were roaring
Sonata in A Minor, Op. 10 No. 4
09. I. Andante
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Minuetto
12 Songs, Op. 1
12. No. 5. In vain you tell your parting Lover
12 Songs, Op. 16
13. No. 4. Again returns the blushful May
12 Canzonets, Op. 9
14. No. 8. O Venus! hear my ardent pray’r
12 Songs, Op. 1
15. No. 2. Blest as th’immortal Gods is He
12 Songs, Op. 4
16. No. 2. My banks they are furnish’d with bees
12 Songs, Op. 1
17. No. 1. The heavy hours are almost past
12 Songs, Op. 7
18. No. 6. Night to lovers’ joys a friend
12 Songs, Op. 16
19. No. 6. Sweet was the sun’s last parting ray
William Jackson of Exeter (1730–1803) was a painter and writer as well as a composer, but he has been, until now, something of a hidden treasure. As Timothy Roberts writes in his introduction to this first album of Jackson’s music, ‘his songs are rooted in English traditions, and if his harmonies rarely move beyond those of Corelli and Handel, Jackson’s emphasis on sensibility also brings hints of early Romanticism’. One contemporary observed that ‘His melodies were pure and natural’, resulting in music that is both elegant and charming. This recording brings two esteemed early-music stars into the Toccata Classics catalogue: Dame Emma Kirkby and Charles Daniels.