"Hille Perl makes the viola da gamba laugh, cry, lament and cheer." Hille Perl is one of the world's finest viola da gamba players specializing in music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Her recordings at deutsche harmonia mundi have been awarded numerous prizes and received great acclaim. "Ballads within a dream" is the new album of Hille Perl with Andreas Arend, theorbo player. Together with soprano Clare Wilkinson and violinist Veronika Skuplik they recorded a magical, sentimental and entertaining panorama of "dreamlike" English baroque music: with folk songs and ballads by Blow, Purcell, Johnson and Pilkington as well as solo improvisations for theorbo on traditionals (such as the famous "Greensleeves") and three pieces for strings by Eccles, Simpson and Finger.

• 1. Blow: a Love Song (From Amphion Anglicus, London 1700)
• 2. Passamezzo Antico - Su Saltarello (Improv. For Theorbo)
• 3. Shakespeare: Out of This Wood (Midsummer Night's Dream)
• 4. Eccles: Sonata In G Minor - Largo
• 5. Eccles: Sonata In G Minor - Corente
• 6. Eccles: Sonata In G Minor - Adagio
• 7. Eccles: Sonata In G Minor - Presto
• 8. L'amour De Moy (Trad. Song Arr. By Jean Richafort)
• 9. Passamezzo Moderno - Su Saltarello (Improv. For Theorbo)
• 10. Johnson: Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?
• 11. Shakespeare: Come Wait Upon Him (Midsummer Night's Dream)
• 12. Purcell: 'Twas Within a Furlong of Edinborough Town
• 13. Black is the Colour of My True Love's Hair (Trad. Song)
• 14. Simpson: Ground In E Minor For Bass Viol & B.C.
• 15. Finger: Sonata In a Major - Adagio
• 16. Finger: Sonata In a Major - Allegro
• 17. Finger: Sonata In a Major - Adagio
• 18. Finger: Sonata In a Major - Allegro - Adagio
• 19. I Will Give My Love an Apple (Trad. Song)
• 20. Purcell: Music For a While (Orpheus Britannicus Ii)
• 21. Music For a While Modulating To Drink To Me Only With Thine
• 22. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
• 23. Pilkington: Rest, Sweet Nymphs
• 24. Greensleeves (Trad. Song)