Britten & Dowland - Lute Songs - Hyperion: CDA67648 - CD or download

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.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Dec 2007
Catalogue No: CDA67648
Label: Hyperion
Length: 75 minutes

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Dowland: Unquiet thoughts

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Say love if ever thou didst find

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Away with these self-loving lads

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Fantasia No 7

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Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Sleep, wayward thoughts

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Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Come heavy sleep

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70

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Craig Ogden (guitar)

I. Musingly: Meditativo

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II. Very agitated: Molto agitato

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III. Restless: Inquieto

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IV. Uneasy: Ansioso

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V. March-like: Quasi una marcia

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VI. Dreaming: Sognante

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VII. Gently rocking: Cullante

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VIII. Passacaglia: Measured (Misurato) – Slow and quiet (Molto tranquillo)

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Dowland: Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: I must complain

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: If my complaints could passions move

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Excerpt, Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

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Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

XVIII. Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard

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Dowland: What if I never speed?

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: To ask for all thy love

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: Now, O now, I needs must part

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Dowland: In darkness let me dwell

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

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Mark Padmore is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest tenors working today, celebrated in the opera house, the concert hall and as a peerless recording artist. He is admiredamong other thingsfor his extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy [his] joy in conveying the emotional core of each situation (Gramophone) and it is these facets of his performancetogether with the exquisite musicianship of Elizabeth Kennywhich make this disc of Dowland songs such a delight. The little world of each song is sensitively explored and beautifully expressed. Elizabeth Kenny writes in her scholarly booklet notes that over the years many great singers have made Dowlands voice their own, and this is one of our starting points for this disc. Padmore and Kenny have used some perhaps less familiar manuscripts to perform a number of these songs and the result is fascinating. Brittens Nocturnal after John Dowland, written for Julian Bream in 1963, is an extended exploration of the tensions and nightmares behind the song Come, heavy Sleep, and receives a darkly brilliant performance here by Craig Ogdon.

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February 2008

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.

... extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy … [Mark Padmore] joy in conveying the emotional core of each situation

Janurary 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.

Early Music Today

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

The Independent on Sunday

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

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