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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Cozens Lute BookRecording location: All Saints’ Church, Petersham, Surrey, UK, May 1975
Antony Rooley writes: ‘Since 1963 I had been spending many hours in the British Library studying the sixteenth-century English lute manuscripts … what a unique collection! The “Jane Pickering Lute Book”, “The John Sturt Lute Book”, “The Mynshall Lute Book” – all collections of one individual’s personal choice of repertoire, each with unique information on fingering, ornamentation, taste and style. ‘I was invited by Decca to make a solo lute recital – and as no one in the company knew the repertoire, I was left alone to finalize my choice. How to choose from such wonderfully obscure collections from 400 years ago? ‘Why did I choose John Cozens’ Lute Book (residing in Cambridge University Library) from the rest? Well, I admired his taste! I admired his ornamentation! I admired his clarity! It is a wonderful collection of the very best Elizabethan/Jacobean lute music – and it was about the right length for an LP. (Although in the end I made a selection rather than the complete manuscript). ‘I can only say, 35 years on, I was a very lucky young man and I think I made the wisest choice – it is still a collection of very beautiful music!’ This delicious LP makes its first appearance on CD on this Decca Eloquence reissue. “This is an anthology of the best kind … Rooley’s playing is thoughtful and gentle … he has a fine sense of the long-range spread of a piece and the playing has a pleasing combination of control and relaxation.” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Dowland - Lute Edition Volume 4The Queen's Galliard
Dowland: | Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard The Queen’s Galliard, P. 97 Dowland’s First Galliard John Dowland’s Galliard, P. 21 Complaint Frog Galliard Aloe Walsingham Galliard on Walsingham Coranto, P100 Galliard, P. 27 Come away, come, sweet love new version by Nigel North Sir John Souch’s Galliard The King of Denmark, His Galliard Awake, sweet love Awake, sweet love new version by Nigel North What If A Day My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Robin Fortune my foe Go From My Window, P. 64 Loth to Depart, P. 69 |
Nigel North’s Dowland Lute Edition has gained him a garland of critical accolades. On this fourth and final volume, North presents a selection of dances and songs by the composer celebrated as the ‘English Orpheus’ “The variations on 'Loth to depart' are teased out with a supple plenitude going straight to the heart of Dowland's sumptuous melancholy, while no two galliards ever sound alike (North one minute full of regal insouciance, the next sonorous and declamatory).” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 ***** “…North is unhurried yet radiantly flowing both in terms of his ideas and their execution. …listen for example, to the precision and delicacy of Complaint and Aloe or to the crisp, lightly skipping phrases of the Coranto.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2009 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Hopkinson Smith - A Portrait
Attaingnant: | Pavane et Sauterelle Bransle de Poictou | Bach, J S: | Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002: Bourrée Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV1012: Sarabande Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006: Preludio | Dowland: | Frog Galliard Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 | Gallot: | Sarabande ‘la sans Pareille’ | Gaultier, E: | La Cascade | Guerau: | Canarios | Hagen, B J: | Concerto for lute, 2 violins, alto and cello (Largo) | Kapsberger: | Toccata XI Gagliarda | Mouton, C: | La Malassise Sarabande | Mudarra: | Romanesca o Guardame las vacas | Narvaez: | Veynte y dos diferencias sobre Conde Claros | Sanz: | Marizapalos La Tarantela | Weiss, S: | Partita for lute in D minor (Prelude/Courante) |
“Without doubt the finest lute player in the world today.” San Francisco Chronicle | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Art of Segovia
Albéniz: | Asturias (from Suite espanola, Op. 47) Zambra Granadina | Bach, J S: | Prelude in D (after Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007) Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002: Bourrée Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009: Courante Gavotte (Rondeau) from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV1006 | Castelnuovo-Tedesco: | Capriccio diabolico (Homage to Paganini) Tonadilla on the name of Andrés Segovia, Op. 170, No. 5 | Chopin: | Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major | Debussy: | Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin | Dowland: | If my complaints could passions move Frog Galliard | Falla: | Homenaje a Debussy | Franck, C: | L'Organiste: Quasi lento (Preludio) L'Organiste: Andantino poco allegretto | Frescobaldi: | Aria e Corrente | Grieg: | Lyric Pieces Op. 47: No. 3 - Melody | Handel: | Sarabande from Suite in D minor, HWV437 | Mendelssohn: | String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12: Canzonetta | Mussorgsky: | Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle | Paganini: | Andantino variato | Pedrell, C: | Guitarreo | Ponce, M: | Theme Varie et Finale | Rameau: | Minuet in G major | Rodrigo: | Zarabanda lejana Fantasia para un Gentilhombre: Danza de las hachas Symphony of the Air, Enrique Jordá | Roussel: | Segovia for guitar, Op. 29 | Scarlatti, D: | Keyboard Sonata K11 in C minor | Scriabin: | Prelude, Op. 16 No. 4 in E flat minor | Segovia: | Estudio sin luz | Sor: | Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9 | Tárrega: | Recuerdos de la Alhambra Capricho árabe Marieta (Mazurka) | Torroba: | Romanza de los piños Madroños Serenata burlesca | trad.: | Mexican Folksong | Turina: | Sevillana, Op. 29 | Villa-Lobos: | Prelude No. 1 in E minor Prelude No. 3 in A minor |
(All transcriptions by Andrés Segovia)
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| |  | The Mississippi Guitar Quartet: Soundscapes
Bach, J S: | Fugue in G minor, BWV578 'Little' | Bizet: | Carmen: Prelude to Act I | Brouwer, L: | Paisaje Cubano con lluvia | Davies, Maxwell: | Farewell to Stromness | Dowland: | Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 Frog Galliard | Joplin: | The Entertainer | Pachelbel: | Canon | Saint-Saëns: | Danse macabre, Op. 40 | Strauss, J, II: | An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 | Vaughan Williams: | Prelude on 'Rhosymedre' | Warlock: | Capriol Suite |
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| |  | Merry MelancholyEnglish Lute Music
Joachim Held is currently one of the best lute players in the world and received the 2006 Echo Klassik Prize for his CD Delightful Lute-Pleasure (HAEN98232). In the 16th and 17th centuries the concept of “melancholy” was seen as a deeply poetic element of soaring ecstasy with the power to inspire even better deeds. Held performs works by Holborne, Dowland, Byrd, Johnson and Cutting. “Held's interpretations are steady but subtly phrased, sparingly ornamented and never indulge in extremes of tempo or rubato. With this recording Held offers us fresh insights into the soundscape of private music-making in the late Elizabethan era.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 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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| |  | Dowland - A Dream
“Hopkinson Smith's latest collection, 'A Dream', invites the listener '...to penetrate the world of the inner senses that is the domain of the lute'.
An elegantly constructed programme (built around groups of Hilliard-like portraits and melancholy flights of fancy) tropes sonnet-like at the wonderful Farwell, a magical, troubling fantasy that treats its chromatically rising theme contrapuntally while somehow tying all the preceding emotional strands in the programme together. This propels the listener lachrymoneously (sic – Smith's word) into an even darker dwelling-place than was expected. In fact, this is the genius of the disc, and what makes it a genuinely moving experience.
Smith's playing, too, is elegant rather than overtly virtuosic, although he has technique to burn, as anyone who's familiar with his numerous recordings will tell you. He prefers a more suggestive, diffuse approach to Dowland's music (compared with, say, Paul O'Dette). As a result, the numerous diminutions serve to intensify the character of each piece in a profound and subtle way.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Semper Dowland Semper DolensMusic for lute
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| |  | Such Sweet SorrowLute Pieces by John Dowland
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