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Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Jan 2011
Catalogue No: BISCD1725
Label: BIS
Length: 75 minutes

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Dowland: Book of Songs, Book 2: Disdain me still, that I may ever love

Work length3:43

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Book of Songs, Book 3: Lend your ears to my sorrow, good people

Work length2:59

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Come heavy sleep

Work length4:14

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Prelude for lute

Work length1:09

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Varietie of Lute Lessons

Work length1:55

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Varietie of Lute Lessons, II. The Right Honourable Earl of Essex, His Galliard (42a)

Track length1:55

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Dowland: A Shepherd in a Shade

Work length2:35

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires: By a fountain where I lay

Work length2:37

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Away with these self-loving lads

Work length2:45

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15

Work length5:10

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: Tarleton's Riserrectione

Work length1:28

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: A Pilgrimes Solace: If that a sinner's sighs be angel's food

Work length2:34

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Varietie of Lute Lessons

Work length4:17

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Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Varietie of Lute Lessons: X. A Fantasie (1a)

Track length4:17

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Dowland: Book of Songs, Book 2: Toss not my soul

Work length2:58

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Dowland: A Musicall Banquet

Work length3:50

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Book of Songs, Book 4, "A Pilgrimes Solace": In darkness let me dwell

Track length3:50

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Purcell: She loves and she confesses too, Z413

Work length1:53

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630 (arr. for soprano and lute)

Work length2:42

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act IV: They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers (arr. for soprano and lute)

Track length2:42

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Purcell: Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT 678, called the Cibell

Work length1:36

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (arr. J. Lindberg)

Work length2:16

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Act II: Echo Dance of Furies

Track length1:16

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Act II: The Groves Dance

Track length1:00

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Purcell: Fly swift ye hours, Z369

Work length5:10

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574

Work length2:38

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Bonduca, Z. 574, “The British Heroine”: No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom

Track length2:38

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Purcell: What a sad fate is mine, Z428

Work length2:49

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid: A New Irish Tune in G Major, Z. 646, "Lilliburlero" (arr. J. Lindberg)

Work length0:50

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid : A New Scotch Tune in C Major, Z. 655 (arr. J. Lindberg)

Work length1:28

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: The Old Batchelor, Z. 607: Hornpipe in E Minor (arr. J. Lindberg)

Work length0:48

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682

Work length2:25

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370

Work length4:00

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

Purcell: Music for a while, Z583

Work length4:16

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Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recorded: November 2008
Recording Venue: Lanna Church, Sweden

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Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg have devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and the melancholy of In darkness let me dwell, we are led via the desperation and drama of Bess of Bedlam to the conviction expressed in Music for a while that music has the power to vanquish even death. Interspersing the songs are lute solos, including Dowland’s immortal Lachrimae, but also Lindberg’s own transcriptions of Purcell pieces such as The Cibell and the Echo Dance of the Furies from Dido and Aeneas, performed on Lindberg’s unique four-hundred year old instrument. Kirkby and Lindberg are musical partners of long standing, with earlier collaborations on BIS including Musique and Sweet Poetrie (BISSACD1505), a survey of the lute song across Europe around the year 1600. ‘A grand tour conducted by a pair of ideal guides’ was how the reviewer in Gramophone described that disc, while his colleague in International Record Review found that the ‘undeniably glorious performances’ made the disc ‘a journey well worth making’.

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March 2011

Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is more sympathetic than most, and her 'Music for a While' is more enigmatic. The voice may be less beautiful than it was, but her singing is more beautiful than ever.

May 2011

Few singers are quite a compelling with only a lute for company: Kirkby's phrasing has impeccable light and shade, and her authoritative articulation of melancholic sentiments is simply first-class...her gripping interpretation [of In darkness let me dwell] is devoid of complacence; moreover, her intonation and technique in florid music has lost none of its sparkle and precision.

May 2011

Kirkby embellishes with taste and discretion...Both [she] and Lindberg are especially good here in the last Dowland item, 'In darkness let me dwell'...the tempo well judged, the lute part a translucent garment draped over Kirkby's highly expressive delivery.

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