Browse: Dowland - The Shoemaker's Wife

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…

The prospect of a Nigel North set is something to drool over, and this first installment doesn't disappoint. Pre-eminently the lutenist's lutenist, North is steeped in the music - and technically... — BBC Music Magazine, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

It's music through which he's grown and which has grown in him so that this beautifully assembled anthology isn't so much a compendium of 'greatest hits'...rather it's a beguiling progress report... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…