Thomas Dunford - Songs of Passion (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

With Songs of Passion, a collection of vocal and instrumental music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell – English composers born nearly a century apart – mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, lutenist Thomas Dunford and Ensemble Jupiter have created a companion to their previous albums, Eternal Heaven, Idylle and Amazone. Making guest appearances on Songs of Passion are four further singers of the rising generation: baritone Huw Montague Rendall, contralto Jess Dandy, tenor Laurence Kilsby and bass Alex Rosen. Dowland is known for his intimate evocations of amorous melancholy in his writing for voice and for lute, while the music of Purcell – the greatest British-born composer of the Baroque era – encompasses a rich diversity of moods and emotions. To the fore on Songs of Passion are two of Purcell’s works for the stage: The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas. Dido’s famous lament, ‘When I am laid in earth’, forms the climax of the album.

TRACKLIST

Disc: 1
1 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 1, Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
2 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 10, Semper Dowland, semper dolens, P. 9 - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
3 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 9, Go Crystal Tears - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
4 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 12, The King of Denmark's Galliard, P. 40 - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
5 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 5, Can She Excuse My Wrongs? - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
6 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 2, Lachrimae antiquae - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
7 A Dream, P. 75 - Thomas Dunford
8 Second Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 3, Sorrow, Stay - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
9 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 14, The Earl of Essex Galliard, P. 42 - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
10 Second Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 2, Flow My Tears - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
11 Frog Galliard, P. 23 - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
12 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 6, Now, o Now, I Needs Must Part - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford

Disc: 2
1 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act III: If Love's a Sweet Passion - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
2 Come, Ye Sons of Art Away, Z. 323: V. Strike the Viol - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
3 O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406 - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
4 An Evening Hymn on a Ground, Z. 193 - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
5 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Chaconne - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
6 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
7 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act IV: Now the Night Is Chased Away - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
8 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
9 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Ah Belinda! - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
10 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Echo Dances of Furies - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
11 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
12 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: The Witches's Dance - Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
13 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Thy Hand, Belinda - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
14 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: When I Am Laid in Earth - Lea Desandre, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford
15 Take Me Back to You - Lea Desandre, Thomas Dunford, Doug Balliett & Jupiter



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