Thomas Linley (1756-1778) - The Tempest (1777)

Happy birthday Thomas Linley! 🎻🎁 Composer: Thomas Linley (1756-1778) Work: The Tempest (1777) Performers: Julia Gοοding (soprano); The Pаrley of Instruments Baroque Choir & Orchestra; Paul Nichοlsοn (conductor) The Tempest (1777) 1. Arise! Ye Spirits Of The Storm 0:00 2. O Bid Your Faithful Ariel Fly 5:47 3. Come Unto These Yellow Sands 10:31 4. Hark, Hark, The Watch-Dogs Bark 14:32 5. While You Here Do Sleeping Lie 15:31 6. Ere you Can Say ’Come’ And ’Go’ 17:28 7. Where The Bee Sucks, There Lurk I 20:23 Painting: Anonymous (18th Century) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Thomas Linley in the family of Gavard des Pivets in Florence HD image: Painting: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) - Thomas Linley the younger HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Thomas Linley [the younger] (Bath, 7 May 1756 - Grimsthorpe, 5 August 1778) English composer and violinist. Son of the composer Thomas Linley (1733-1795), he was known as a child prodigy, performing a concerto on the violin at the Bath concerts in 1763 at age 7. Thereafter he was sent to London to study under William Boyce, and in 1768 he went to Italy to study under Pietro Nardini. He met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart there in April 1770 and Charles Burney in September of the same year. He returned to England in 1771 and became a regular performer in concerts in Bath and London. He was leader at Drury Lane from 1773 to 1778 and often played concertos between the acts of oratorios. His tragic early death in a boating accident while on holiday with his family at Grimsthorpe Castle was one of the greatest losses that English music has suffered. As a composer, his music includes three operas, three anthems/odes (including one on Shakespeare), 20 songs, 20 violin concertos (most lost), and several smaller works. He was one of the most precocious composers and performers that have been known in England. The famous painter Thomas Gainsborough painted Linley’s portrait three times. His sisters Elizabeth Ann Linley (1754-1792) and Mary Linley (1758-1787) were both sopranos, and his brothers William Linley (1771-1835) and Ozias Thurston Linley (1765-1831) were musicians and composers.