Browse: Dowland - Lady Clifton's Spirit

Zuljan’s eclectic background as a guitarist, oud player and lutenist, combined with musical tastes that range from medieval to jazz, makes him highly responsive to the varied hues of Dowland’s... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

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…

Wadsworth's… playing… is stolid and deliberate yet strangely luminous - no light but rather darkness visible. In his hands Anthony Holborne, Thomas Morley and Daniel Batchelar's dark, sophisticated... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2009 More…

Hopkinson Smith's latest collection, 'A Dream', invites the listener '...to penetrate the world of the inner senses that is the domain of the lute'.
An elegantly constructed programme (built... — 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…