Dowland: Lute Songs/Jones: Lute Songs
Dowland: Lute Songs/Jones: Lute Songs
Genre: Classical | FLAC tracks, No CUE , No Log | 2 CDs | Covers LQ | 479 Mb | RS
Date: 2 Aug 2004 | Label: Virgin Classics
Genre: Classical | FLAC tracks, No CUE , No Log | 2 CDs | Covers LQ | 479 Mb | RS
Date: 2 Aug 2004 | Label: Virgin Classics
Technically, this an excellent CD, with calm, assured playing by Rooley and (as always) careful, beautifully-articulated singing by Kirkby. I wanted to like it very much. But there's something inert about it all. Some of the songs are dances but you'd not realise it here, where everything is made elegaic and exquisitely sad. In the end this swamps the songs, flattening them in tone and nuance. It also links maybe to the sound of the CD; I don't think it's got added reverb but, rather, something else in the mixing which makes Kirkby's voice put your teeth on edge; there's a glacial, icing-sugar finish to her tone in this recording. I find it hard to listen to, despite the brilliance of it.
Composer: John Dowland, Robert Jones
Performer: Emma kirby, Anthony Rooley
Performer: Emma kirby, Anthony Rooley
Dowland: Lute Songs/Jones: Lute Songs
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Awake, Sweet Love
2. Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
3. All Ye Whom Love
4. Dear, If You Change
5. Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
6. Mister Dowland's Midnight
7. Sorrow, Stay!
8. Die Not Before Thy Day
9. Mourn! Mourn!
10. Woeful Heart
11. Now Cease, My Wandering Eyes
12. Behold A Wonder Here
13. The Lowest Trees
14. Me, Me, And None But Me
15. Farewell, Too Fair
16. The Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
17. Mistress Winter's Jump
18. Stay, Time
19. Shall I Strive
20. Thou Mighty God
Disc: 2
1. What If I Seek For Love Of Thee
2. Lie Down Poor Heart
3. When Love On Time
4. Farewell Dear Love
5. Love Wing'd My Hopes
6. Now What Is Love
7. Love Is A Bable
8. Love's God Is A Boy
9. When Will The Fountain
10. Fly From The World
11. Happy He
12. Go To Bed Sweet Muse
13. Ite Caldi Sospiri
14. If In This Flesh
15. O Thread Of Life
16. When I Sit Reading
17. Might I Redeem Mine Errors