Dowland: Songs and Lute Works

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Composer or Director: John Dowland

Label: Etcetera

Magazine Review Date: 7/1989

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 50

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: KTC1030

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Go Cristall teares	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come away, come sweet loue	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come againe: sweet loue doth now enuite	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: I saw my Lady weepe	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: A Sheperd in a shade his plaining made	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: What if I neuer speede	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Weepe you no more sad fountaines	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Sweete stay a while, why will you?	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: My heart and tongue were twinnes	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
In darknesse let mee dwell	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Pavans, Movement: Piper's Pavan, P8	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: The King of Denmarks Galiard	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mistris Winters Jumpe, P55	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Vauxes Gigge, P57	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: The Shomakers Wife a Toy, P58	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Almains, Movement: Mistris Whittes thinge, P50	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute

Composer or Director: John Dowland

Label: Etcetera

Magazine Review Date: 7/1989

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: XTC1030

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Go Cristall teares	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come away, come sweet loue	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come againe: sweet loue doth now enuite	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: I saw my Lady weepe	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: A Sheperd in a shade his plaining made	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: What if I neuer speede	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Weepe you no more sad fountaines	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Sweete stay a while, why will you?	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: My heart and tongue were twinnes	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
In darknesse let mee dwell	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Pavans, Movement: Piper's Pavan, P8	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: The King of Denmarks Galiard	John Dowland, Composer Andrew Dalton, Alto John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mistris Winters Jumpe, P55	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Vauxes Gigge, P57	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: The Shomakers Wife a Toy, P58	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute
Almains, Movement: Mistris Whittes thinge, P50	John Dowland, Composer John Dowland, Composer Yasunori Imamura, Lute

Author: John Duarte

It was Alfred Deller who, with the help of Desmond Dupre, and the gramophone, first brought John Dowland's lute-songs to significant public attention in the 1950s, rescuing them from the near-darkness in which they might otherwise have dwelt. Now, when another mini-surge of interest in the concert hall seems to be reflected in the recording studio, it is pleasing (and nostalgically so) to welcome another high male voice of fine quality to this particular scene. The male alto can sound 'disembodied' and passionlessly pure, a beautiful but impersonal instrument, but Andrew Dalton's voice has flexibility of dimension and colour, capacities he puts to good use in this recording, the emptiness of ''death'', the matching quality of tone of ''darkness'', and the gradual attenuation of the verse-end lines of Weepe you no more, sad fountaines are but a few of the many eloquent examples. We have come a long way from the pre-war recordings by the Dolmetsches in giving these songs a measure of humanity.
In his recent recording of Dowland's songs (Virgin Classics VC7 90726-2, 11/88) Nigel Rogers embellishes his lines, and so too does Dalton, elegantly if less ubiquitously. It is good to find in this new 'generation' of such recordings singers exercising the same freedom in such matters as instrumentalists. The songs span the three Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet and A Pilgrimes Solace, giving access to a better balance of cheerful songs with sad. The proceedings are further lightened by the inclusion of six lute solos, punctuating the programme at three points—four short ones (totalling 3'48'') are grouped together. This is my first hearing of Yasunori Imamura and I hope it will not be the last. He is an admirable accompanist and a splendid soloist, his tone is unusually pure, and matched by the cleanness of his articulation particularly evident in The King of Denmarke, his Galliard, of which he opts for the lavishly ornamented version. The recording engineers have got everything right, and the helpful annotation includes all the texts. What more could one ask?'

Dowland: Songs and Lute Works

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Go Cristall teares

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come away, come sweet loue

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come againe: sweet loue doth now enuite

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: I saw my Lady weepe

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: A Sheperd in a shade his plaining made

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Daphne was not so chaste as she was changing

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: What if I neuer speede

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Weepe you no more sad fountaines

(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Sweete stay a while, why will you?

(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: My heart and tongue were twinnes

In darknesse let mee dwell

Pavans, Movement: Piper's Pavan, P8

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: The King of Denmarks Galiard

Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mistris Winters Jumpe, P55

Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Vauxes Gigge, P57

Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: The Shomakers Wife a Toy, P58

Almains, Movement: Mistris Whittes thinge, P50