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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | 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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| |  | Britten & Dowland - Lute Songs
“Padmore provides context by singing Dowland's original song before Craig Ogden steals in, alert to the Nocturnal's every nuance, and with a palette of colours both caressing and disquieting. Completing the frame, 'Flow my Tears' is beautifully inflected, though finer still is 'In Darkness let me Dwell' where in the final bars Padmore's enrapt engagement seems to conjure up the very chill of death.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 **** “Mark Padmore again shows why he is one of today's finest tenors. The quicker songs, like "Away with these self-loving lads", gain in clarity from a semi-declamatory approach, while the slower are eerily viol-like.” Gramophone Magazine, Janurary 2008 “A simply brilliant disc. I can’t praise it enough. A bronze Liz Kenny should be on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, in my opinion” Early Music Today “Since Emma Kirkby’s first recording in the late-1970s, we have known what to expect from Dowland’s lute songs. Some fine discs have followed, but not until Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny’s new release has there been one as radical in
its potential impact on our understanding of the music. With tonal purity intact, voice and lute add subtle decoration, rhythmic fluidity, drama and rich poetic sensibility to these songs” The Independent on Sunday “... extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy … [Mark Padmore] joy in conveying the emotional core of each situation” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | John Dowland: Lute Songs
Damien Guillon (countertenor) & Eric Bellocq (lute) Damien Guillon has chosen for his first solo recital disc a refined, subtle and melancholy repertoire, which he has gone on to explore in depth and polish in genuine chamber style with the lutenist Eric Bellocq, an expert in Renaissance music. Eric Bellocq plays a liuto forte from André Burguete’s conception, an instrument which enables the player to develop a larger sound possibilities creating a true dialogue with the singer and a great freedom in improvisation. Damien Guillon started at an early age as a member of child’s choir Brittany, then at the Versailles Baroque Center while studying organ and harpsichord. In 2004, he was admitted to the countertenor Andreas Scholl’s class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis… He was soon spotted by such well-known conductors as Jordi Savall, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, Jérôme Correas, Philippe Pierlot, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Christophe Rousset, William Christie, and Philippe Herreweghe. He has founded his own ensemble, Le Banquet Céleste, with which he has performed at Les Nuits Musicales d’Uzès and the Froville Festival. Their repertoire includes Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and the cantatas for alto and obbligato organ of J. S. Bach, which will be Damien Guillon’s next recording project on Zig-Zag Territoires. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Baroque Voices 18 - Dowland: Ayres
These beautiful and melancholy “Ayres” by the English 16th century composer John Dowland may be seen as precursors of the songs of the Romantic period, two centuries later. They are performed here by the renowned combination of Gerard Lesne and the Ensemble Orlando Gibbons. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | The John Dowland CollectionWith new booklet article, Dowland timeline, and sung texts in English
Dowland: | Lachrimae Antiquae If my complaints could passions move Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Come away, come, sweet love My Lady Hudson's Allmande A Piece without title The Shoemaker's Wife Come again, sweet love doth now invite Come heavy sleep Mr Dowland's Midnight Sir John Smith, His Almain Semper Dowland Semper Dolens Lachrimae Gementes I saw my Lady weepe Flow my teares (Lacrimæ) Fine knacks for ladies Shall I sue? Lachrimae Tristes Me, me, and none but me Forlorn Hope Fancy (Fantasie No. 2) Weepe you no more, sad fountaines Lachrimae Coactae Go, nightly cares The Right Honourable Ferdinando The most sacred Queene Elizabeth her Galliard Tell me, true Love Lachrimae Amantis In darkness let me dwell A Fantasie My Lord Chamberlaine his Galliard Far from triumphing Court I shame at mine unworthiness Lachrimae Verae |
Whether gay or sad, simple or complex, John Dowland’s music has the power to move us four centuries after its composition. This wide-ranging anthology explores all aspects of the work of England’s greatest songwriter and lutenist, performed by leading exponents of his art today. “The collection might have sounded like a bit of a hotchpotch were it not for the fact that Dowland's celebrated Lachrimae pavans are woven through the sequence, giving the whole a sense of unity and shape. All in all, it makes a nostalgic and inspiring testimony to Dowland's versatility.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2007 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | John Dowland - Ayres
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| |  | Elisa is the fayrest Quene
Bassano, A: | Pavana Galiarda | Bull, J: | Chromatic Pavan Chromatic Galliard | Byrd: | Fantasia 'A Lesson of Voluntaire' | Coprario: | Fantasia | Cutting: | Divisions on 'Walsingham' | Dowland: | Come again, sweet love doth now invite Come away, come, sweet love | Gervaise/Byrd: | Suite of Almands | Holborne: | Pavan Galliard, Lullabie Almaine, The Honey-Suckle | Johnson, E: | Elisa is the fayrest Quene Come againe, sweet Nature's treasure | Parsons, R: | In nomine | Wilbye: | Sweet Love, if thou wilt gaine a Monarches glory |
Stephen Wallace, Timothy Massa (counter-tenors), Julian Podger (tenor), Robert McDonald (bass), Elizabeth Pallett (lute), Raf Mizraki (percussion) QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble | |
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Andrew Dalton (Countertenor), Yasunori Imamura (Lute) | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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