Browse: Dowland - Frog Galliard

There’s nothing didactic about Jonas Nordberg’s Dowland – nor does he wallow in the melancholy often associated with the English Renaissance master. Instead, the Swedish lutenist draws us into... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bream's sampler shows his passionate best. The (complete) Aranjuez Concerto is unsurpassed; Falla's Miller's Dance blazes; 'impossible' Rodrigo dazzles. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Even in the sometimes twisting inner voices, she makes each and every note, chord, and phrase stand out so that we have a fine sense of the complexity of these arrangements. Clarity and a fine... — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2023 More…

Butten offers us an appropriate variety of sounds. His playing of that masterpiece, Lachrimae Pavan, is as sweetly mournful as can be, yet
one notices his delicate use of dynamics, the slight... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Cadential trills played on one string are a recurrent problem for performers; the less well equipped use a rallentando or slur them, while guitarists tend to play them across two strings.
No... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

far from wearying the listener with a surfeit of sorrow, this is a very successful recital. It demonstrates nicely the other perception of Dowland's contemporaries that, paradoxically, sad music... — International Record Review, December 2012 More…