Orpheus in England - Songs and Lute Music

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JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL
Orpheus in England - Songs and Lute Music
Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Jakob Lindberg (lute)

[ BIS / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 1 December 2010

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Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg have devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and the melancholy of In darkness let me dwell, we are led via the desperation and drama of Bess of Bedlam to the conviction expressed in Music for a while that music has the power to vanquish even death. Interspersing the songs are lute solos, including Dowland's immortal Lachrimae, but also Lindberg's own transcriptions of Purcell pieces such as The Cibell and the Echo Dance of the Furies from Dido and Aeneas, performed on Lindberg's unique four-hundred year old instrument. Kirkby and Lindberg are musical partners of long standing, with earlier collaborations on BIS including Musique and Sweet Poetrie (BISSACD1505), a survey of the lute song across Europe around the year 1600. 'A grand tour conducted by a pair of ideal guides' was how the reviewer in Gramophone described that disc, while his colleague in International Record Review found that the 'undeniably glorious performances' made the disc 'a journey well worth making'.

Tracks:

Dowland:
Disdain me still

Lend your eares to my sorrow good people

Come heavy sleep

Preludium

The Earl of Essex's Galliard

A Shepherd in a Shade

By a fountain where I lay

Away with these self-loving lads

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

Tarleton's Riserrectione

If that a sinner's sigh

A Fantasie

Toss not my soul

In darkness let me dwell

Purcell:
She loves and she confesses too, Z413

They tell us that your mighty powers

Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT 678, called the Cibell

Echo Dance of the Furies

Ritornello 'The Grove'

Fly swift ye hours, Z369

O lead me to some peaceful gloom

What a sad fate is mine

Lilliburlero, Z646

A New Irish Tune Z646

A New Scotch Tune Z 655

Hornpipe

A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682

From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370

Music for a while, Z583