Narrator: Sir Michael Redgrave / Elizabeth I: Dorothy Tutin
00:00 The Queen’s Almaine (Anonymous) Robert Spencer, lute
00:38 This royal infant (these prophetic words are spoken by Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Elizabeth’s christening in the last scene of Shakespeare's ¨King Henry VIII¨) Michael Hordern
02:02 Farewell, O Worthy Queen! (from a set of verses addressed to the Queen as she left the city of London, on her Coronation, January 15th, 1559) Ann Morrish
03:01 She was a lady (this passage, written in 1612, is taken from Sir John Hayward’s ¨Annals¨) David King
03:38 To promote a woman to beare rule (from John Knox’s ¨The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women¨, 1558) Donald Wolfit
05:15 My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home (John Dowland, 1563-1626) Robert Spencer, lute
05:43 When to her lute Corinna sings (from the ¨Book of Ayres¨ of Thomas Campion, 1567-1620)
Rene Soames, tenor / Walter Gerwig, lute / Johannes Koch, viola da gamba
07:00 Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI) Michael Hordern
08:08 I never saw a more beautiful country (from Sir Walter Raleigh’s ¨Discovery of the large, rich and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great, and golden city of Manoa¨, 1596) Peter Orr
09:15 O Isabel! (from Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s ¨Measure for measure¨)
Claudio: Gary Watson / Isabella: Ann Morrish
10:52 So now must I about this geare (from Act V ,Scene 5, Christopher Marlowe’s ¨Edward II¨)
Edward: Peter Jeffrey / Lightborne: Donald Wolfit / Matrevis: David King / Gurney: Harvey Hall
16:56 If I should term her the daughter of sedition (from Job Throckmorton’s address to the House of Commons, November 4th, 1586) Michael Hordern
18:15 I have strived more this day (Elizabeth’s address to Parliament, November 24th, 1586) Dorothy Tutin
19:33 My good servant (last words of Mary, Queen of Scots, February 8th, 1587) Ann Morrish
20:19 Melancholy Galliard (Dowland) Robert Spencer, lute
20:54 We have the army of Spain before us (from a letter of Sir Francis Drake to Francis Walsingham, July 31, 1588) Harvey Hall
22:02 My loving people (Elizabeth’s address to her forces at Tilbury, August 8th, 1588) Dorothy Tutin
24:39 Battle Galliard (Dowland) Robert Spencer, lute
25:20 Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia (from Act IV, Scene 3 of the Second Part of Christopher Marlowe’s ¨Tamburlaine the Great¨) Tamburlaine: Donald Wolfit / Orcanes: David King / King of Jerusalem: Peter Jeffrey / Techelles: Gary Watson / Celebinus: Harvey Hall / Concubine: Ann Morrish
29:45 Friends, Romans, countrymen (from Act III, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s ¨Julius Caesar¨) Peter Orr in Elizabethan pronunciation. Pronunciation adviser: John Bromwich M.A.
31:58 Kempe's Jigge (Anonymous) Robert Spencer, lute
32:31 It was a lover and his lass (the music to this song from Act V, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s ¨As you like it¨ is found in Thomas Morley’s ¨First Book of Ayres¨)
Rene Soames, tenor / Walter Gerwig, lute / Johannes Koch, viola da gamba
33:37 On the 26th day of September (from the ¨Survey of London¨ of John Stow) Gary Watson
34:43 If a woman poison her husband (from the ¨Chronicles¨ of Raphael Holinshed) Donald Wolfit
35:22 My lovely wanton jewel (a madrigal by Thomas Morley, c.1557-1602)
Ambrosian Singers, directed by Denis Stevens
38:21 When I was fair and young, and favor graced me (this poem is thought to have been written by Elizabeth around 1561) Dorothy Tutin
40:17 Virginal solo (First Part Galliard in Dance Time by Thomas Morley) Margaret Hodsdon
41:10 There will never Queen sit in my seat (from Elizabeth’s address to the Parliament, November 30th, 1601) Dorothy Tutin
43:53 Our dear Queen doth now bear show (Sir John Harington, in a letter to his wife, December 17th, 1602) David King / Nunc dimittis (Thomas Caustun, c.1520-1569) Purcell Consort of Voices, directed by Grayston Burgess / 23rd March - She hath been in a manner speechless (from the ¨Diary¨ of John Manningham, a law student) Michael Hordern / Lord, have mercy upon us (from the ¨Book of Common Prayer¨) Lewis Casson, Dorothy Tutin
46:34 Fair Oriana, seeming to wink (a madrigal by Robert Jones (c.1577-1617), from ¨The Triumphs of Oriana¨) Purcell Consort of Voices, directed by Grayston Burgess
Art: Queen Elizabeth I in old age (English school, c.1610)
Негізгі бет Elizabethan England: its Drama, Music, and Sounds
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