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Britten & Dowland - Lute Songs
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor) & Elizabeth Kenny (lute), guitar solo by Craig Ogden
Padmore provides context by singing Dowland's original song before Craig Ogden steals in, alert to the Nocturnal's every nuance, and with a palette of colours both caressing and disquieting.... —
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Building a Library, January 2013, Top recommendation - Dowland Songs
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The atmosphere is intimate and confiding; the music presented simply with minimal ornament. Occasionally the long lines of the slower songs can bring a certain smoothing-out of the text, but... —
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Special offer. Dowland: Lute Songs
Alfred Deller (countertenor) & Robert Spencer (lute)
The Consort of Six
Twenty songs, recorded late in Deller's career when his voice had lost a certain bloom but little of its fascination —
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The Fall of the Leaf
English Keyboard Music on the Rucellai Virginal
Giulia Nuti (early keyboard instruments)
Even in the sometimes twisting inner voices, she makes each and every note, chord, and phrase stand out so that we have a fine sense of the complexity of these arrangements. Clarity and a fine... —
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Come Again Sweet Love
Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Carolyn Sampson, Emma Kirkby (sopranos), Charles Daniels (tenor)
This is deluxe casting, allowing combinations from unaccompanied lute songs to an a cappella duet, and lute solos to five-part madrigals...Taylor - with one of the loveliest countertenor voices... —
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Fine Knacks For Ladies: English Lute Songs of the Renaissance
Peter Pears (tenor), Julian Bream (guitar)
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