This page lists all recordings of Author of Light, by Thomas Campion (1567-1620) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Thomas Campion - Move now with measured soundSongs
Robin Blaze (countertenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), David Miller (theorbo, lute), Joanna Levine (consort bass viol), Mark Levy (lyra viol) ‘Robin Blaze’s countertenor is ideal for these songs’ (The Daily Telegraph) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Ravish’d with Sacred Extasies
anon.: | Miserere, my Maker | Campion: | Never weather-beaten sail Author of Light | Dowland: | Thou mighty God When David's life by Saul (A Pilgrimes Solace) When the poore Criple (A Pilgrimes Solace) Where sin sore wounding In this trembling shadow cast If that a sinner's sigh Prelude for lute Galliard to Lachrimae | Humfrey: | Sleep downy sleep come close mine eyes A Hymne to God the Father | Lawrence: | Lute Suite | Purcell: | Thou wakeful shepherd that dost Israel keep (A Morning Hymn), Z198 How long, great God?, Z189 Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196 A Devine Hymn (Lord, what is man) Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest, Z195 An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 | Wilson, John: | Prelude 18 |
Continuing its work with the rising stars of the early music world, CORO is delighted to be releasing a brand new recording by two of The Sixteen’s principal members - soprano, Elin Manahan Thomas and theorbo and lute player, David Miller. The seventeenth century devotional songs on this disc were written against a backdrop of furious historical dramas and lurching tides of fortune. The songs chosen reflect these assorted times and contexts, and are accordingly diverse. Ravish’d with Sacred Extasies (a quote taken directly from Playford's ‘Harmonia Sacrae’) explores some of the most beautiful Elizabethan lute songs ranging from the doctrinally eloquent to the theologically unsteady, from the spare and the restrained to the opulent and the overblown, from Dowland’s small cluster of late devotional songs to Purcell’s flowery and luscious settings. “If you think of lute songs as secular repertory, think again...Elin Manahan Thomas and lutenist David Miller illuminate this music's subtleties, infusing their reading with warmth and intimacy...this is a lovely contribution to recorded lute song.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 **** “Manahan Thomas has as keen an ear for the music of language as for the language of music while Miller...brings to the table a highly developed understanding of dramatic and musical rhetoric...Throughout, Manahan Thomas fits the sound to the sense...whilst never allowing either diction, intonation or purity of tone to suffer.” International Record Review, December 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Awake, sweet love
| | In terrors trapp’d with thraldom thrust William Hunnis (attributed) | anon.: | Come tread the paths of pensive pangs | Campion: | Author of Light Oft have I sigh’d for him that hears me not | Danyel: | Eyes, look no more Thou pretty bird, how do I see I die whenas I do not see | Dowland: | Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Flow my teares (Lacrimæ) A Fancy solo lute Sorrow, stay The most sacred Queene Elizabeth her Galliard solo lute Go, nightly cares Now, O now, I needs must part Prelude for lute A Fantasie solo lute Say love if ever thou didst find Frog Galliard solo lute Awake, sweet love Tell me, true Love | Ferrabosco, A I: | Pavin solo lute | Ford, T: | Since first I saw your face | Johnson, E: | Eliza is the fairest Queen |
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| |  | A Quiet Conscience: Songs from the 17th Century
Connor Burrowes (treble), John Scott (organ), David Miller (theorbo) | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | The Sypres Curten of the NightElizabethan & Jacobean Lute Songs
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| |  | Thomas Campion: Lute Songs
Dorothy Linell (lute), Steven Rickards (counter-tenor) “Like Nicholas Lanier, his younger contemporary, Thomas Campion (1567-1620) is another of those remarkably versatile figures who played a major role in the flourishing secular arts of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. ...
The American countertenor Steven Rickards has here chosen 28 of [Campion's] songs, a well-varied selection ranging from religious moralities to the charmingly insouciant Jacke and Joane, a panegyric in praise of simple country life. Campion's approach to the subject of love is in general considerably more light hearted than that of Dowland, and Rickards is particularly successful at brining out the sly insinuation in a song like It fell upon a sommers daie. But his singing is distinguished throughout by a freshness and lack of artifice that admirably suits Campion's direct, uncomplicated style. Diction is very good, too. The lute parts, by no means as complex or demanding as those of Dowland, are sympathetically performed.
It would in fact be idle to suggest Campion's lute songs approach those of his greater contemporary, but the high quality of his poetry, easy melodic appeal, and often humorous approach make them a very appealing antidote to the near-unremitting seriousness of Dowland. Yet another excellent bargain from Naxos.” Early Music Magazine, August 1999 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | English Ayres by Thomas Campion
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