Dorian Recordings
DOR-90148
John Dowland
Ronn McFarlane, Lute
John Dowland stands out as the most tuneful Elizabethan lute composer. Whether creating tunes for dances, variatons on popular ballads or weaving a contrapuntal fantasia, his melodies lodge in the memory and resound there long after the music has stopped.Over half of Dowland's compostitions are written in dance forms - mostly pavans, galliards and almains. These pieces are written as art music, not intended to accompany dancing, though they embody the character of the physical movements of the dance.
- Ronn McFarlane
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[1] Sir John Smith's Almain [2] Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard [3] My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home [4] Melancholy Galliard [5] My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe [6] Piper's Pavan [7] The Earl of Essex Galliard [8] Fantasie #1 [9] Fortune My Foe [10] Lady Laiton's Almain [11] Lachrimae [12] Queen Elizabeth's Galliard [13] Tarleton's Resurrection [14] Mrs. Winter's Jump |
[15] Preludium [16] Dowland's Galliard [17] Go From My Window [18] Round Battle Galliard [19] What if a Day [20] The Shoemaker's Wife [21] A Fancy #5 [22] Mr. Dowland's Midnight [23] Dr. Case's Pavan [24] Orlando Sleepeth [25] Lady Clifton's Spirit [26] Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens [27] The Frog Galliard [28] Mrs. White's Nothing |
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