Dorian Recordings
DOR-90109
Julianne Baird, Soprano
Ronn McFarlane, Lute
The lute songs of earlier Elizabethan times, such as those by Campion, Dowland and Morley are distinguished by directness, relative simplicity of vocal line, and musical fidelity to the rhythm of the text. Furthermore, throughout the Renaissance and early Baroque, in England as in no other country, song was shaped by the firm authority of poets, who took a dim view of the singer who might "hide the light of sense with divisions."- Julianne Baird
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[1] This Merry Pleasant Spring / Anon. [2] Woods, Rocks and Mountains* / Robert Johnson (c. 1583-1633) [3] April is in My Mistress' Face / Thomas Morley (1557-1602) [4] No More Shall Meads be Deck'd With Flow'rs / N. Lanier (1588-1666) [5] Lute Solo:The French King's Masque / Anon. [6] Come My Celia / Alfonso Ferrabosco (before 1578-1628) [7] O Death, Rock Me Asleep / Anon. [8] Where the Bee Sucks / Johnson [9] Full Fathom Five / Johnson [10] Come Away, Hecate / Johnson [11] The Willow Song / Anon. [12] Lute Solo:Alman, "Hit and Take It" / Johnson [13] Dear, Do Not Your Fair Beauty Wrong* / J. Wilson (1595-1674) [14] Come Hither You That Love / Johnson [15] Have You Seen But a White Lily Grow* / Johnson [16] I Must Complain / Anon. [17] Nothing on Earth / Anon. [18] Fain Would I Wed / Thomas Campion (1567-1620) [19] Miserere, My Maker / Anon. [20] O That Mine Eyes / Thomas Brewer (1611-c. 1665) [21] Lute Solo:Alman / Johnson [22] Care, Charming Sleep / Johnson [23] Cupid is Venus' Only Joy / Anon. [24] O Let Us Howl* / Johnson [25] As Life What is so Sweet / William Webb (c.1600-after 1656) [26] Turn, Turn Thy Beauteous Face Away! / Wilson [27] Take, O Take Those Lips Away / Wilson * = Lute realization from an unfigured bass by Lucy Cross |
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