Thomas Bateson (v. 1570-1630)

Thomas Bateson, Batson ou Betson est un compositeur anglais né en 1570 dans le comté de Cheshire et décédé à Dublin en 1630. Sa renommée repose sur les madrigaux, qui lui donnent une place importante parmi les compositeurs élisabéthains. Il a publié un ensemble de madrigaux en 1604 et un second ensemble en 1618, et les deux recueils ont été réimprimés ces dernières années.

En 1599, il est organiste à la cathédrale de Chester. Il est le premier à obtenir un grade musical au Trinity Collège de Dublin, ville dans laquelle il fait carrière. Il y mourut en 1630.

Il est connu pour avoir composé de la musique d'église dont seul l'anthem à 7 voix "Holy, Lord God Almighty" a survécu, mais surtout par ses 2 livres de madrigaux édités à Londres en 1604 et 1618 (58 pièces connues).

Publications

The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (London, 1604)
The Second Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (London, 1618)


Liste

1er livre (1604)

Beauty is a lovely sweet (3 voices)
Love would discharge the duty (3 voices)
The nightingale (3 voices)
Ah me! my mistress scorns my love (3 voices)
Come follow me, fair nymphs (3 voices)
Your Shining Eyes (3 voices)

Whither so fast (4 voices)
Dame Venus hence to Paphos go (4 voices)
Down from above (4 voices)
Adieu! sweet love, adieu (4 voices)
If Love be blind (4 voices)
Phyllis, farewell (4 voices)

Those sweet, delightful lilies (5 voices)
And must I needs depart then? (5 voices)
Sweet Gemma first part (5 voices)
Yet stay alway second part (5 voices)
Strange were the life (5 voices)
Alas, alas! where is my love (5 voices)
O fly not love (5 voices)
Who prostrate lies (5 voices)
Sister awake! (5 voices)
Hark, hear you not? (Oriana's Epitaph) (5 voices)

Dear, if you wish (6 voices)
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets (6 voices)
Phyllis, farewell (6 voices)
Thirsis, on his fair Phyllis' breast reposing (6 voices)
Merrily my love and I (6 voices)
Music, some think, no music is (6 voices)
When Oriana walk'd (6 voices)


2ème livre (1618)

Love is the fire (3 voices)
My Mistress after service due (3 voices)
One woman scarce of twenty (3 voices)
If I seek to enjoy (3 voices)
Pleasure is a wanton thing (3 voices)
Sweet, those trammels of your hair (3 voices)

Live not, poor bloom  (4 voices)
The nightingale in silent night (4 voices)
O what is she? (4 voices)
See forth her eyes (4 voices)
When to the gloomy woods (4 voices)
If floods of tears (4 voices)

Have I found her? (5 voices)
Down the hills Corinna trips (5 voices)
Camilla fair tripped o'er the plain (5 voices)
Sadness, sit down (5 voices)
Life of my life (5 voices)
I heard a noise (5 voices)
With bitter sighs (5 voices)
Why do I, dying, live? (5 voices)
In depth of grief (5 voices)
All the day I waste (5 voices)
Why dost thou fly? (5 voices)
Come, Sorrow, help me to lament (5 voices)

Cupid in a bed of roses (6 voices)
Cytherea smiling said (6 voices)
Her hair the net of golden wir (6 voices)
Fond love is blind first part (6 voices)
Ah, Cupid, grant that I may never see second part (6 voices)
She with a cruel frown (6 voices)


The Nightingale



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeQ1KuKhHE

The nightingale,
so soon as April bringeth
unto her rested sense
a perfect waking,
while late, bare earth,
proud of new clothing,
sings out her woes,
a thorn her songbook making
and mournfully bewailing
her throat in tunes expresseth
what grief her breast oppresseth.