Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Sometimes known as "Bid me to live". Published in 1652. Henry Lawes (1596-1662) was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century and the older brother of fellow composer William Lawes.
Andreas Staier -- cembalo aka harpsichord
Pedro Memelsdorff -- flute
The painting is "River Landscape with a Castle on a High Cliff" by Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1629-1682), who was very influential on later English landscape painters like J. M. W. Turner and John Constable.
Sometimes known as "Bid me to live". Published in 1652. Henry Lawes (1596-1662) was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century and the older brother of fellow composer William Lawes.
Andreas Staier -- cembalo aka harpsichord
Pedro Memelsdorff -- flute
The painting is "River Landscape with a Castle on a High Cliff" by Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1629-1682), who was very influential on later English landscape painters like J. M. W. Turner and John Constable.
