John Dowland: Lute Songs; Lute Solos
2 CDs, 123 Minutes
CD1 Flow, my tears; Galliard; The Lady Laiton's Almain; Fortune my Foe; The Frog Weep you no more, sad Fountains; Me, me, and none but me; What if I never speed? Lasso, vita mia; The Shoesmaker's Wife; Can she excuse; Mistress White's Thing The Round Battle; Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me of my heart?; Come away, come, sweet love Sorrow, stay; If that sinner's sighs; Midnight; Say, Love, if ever you didst find?; Lachrimae Pavan Can she excuse; If my complaints could passions move; Katherine Darcy's Galliard
CD 2 Come again, sweet love; I saw my lady weep; Orlando sleepeth; Tarlton's Resurrection Sir John Smith's Almain; Mistress White's Nothing; My Lord Chamberlain's Galliard; From silent night Flow not so fast, ye fountains; My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; Mistress Winter's Jump Melancholy Galliard; My Lady Hundson's Puff; Shall I sue?; In darkness let me dwell; The First Galliard Can she excuse my wrongs?; Come, heavy Sleep; Captain Digory Piper's Pavan and Galliard Go, nightly cares
Alfred Deller’s Dowland has become part of our history. The most legendary of English countertenors distilled the very essence of the melancholy of the 17th century English song in general and of the composer of the Lachrimae in particular.