Selected Works by John Dowland

IV. Research Period: The High Renaissance (16th Century)

Series M: The Elizabethan Age: Selected Works by John Dowland
Studio der frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.
Archiv Produktion APM 14 845 [LP, mono]
Archiv Produktion SAPM 198 345 [LP, stereo]
Archiv Produktion SAPM 198 845 [LP, stereo]
Archiv Produktion ARC 3 245 [LP, mono, USA]
Archiv Produktion ARC 73 245 [LP, stereo, USA]
DG Archiv "Blue" 471 721-2 [CD]

Contents:

John Dowland:

1. I Saw my lady weep
2. Go, nightly cares
3. Can she excuse
4. Lachrimae Verae
5. Tell me, true love
6. Shall I sue

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7. Sorrow, stay
8. Come, ye heavy states of night
9. In darkness let me dwell
10. Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
11. Thou Mighty God
12. Me, me, and none but me

Sources:
[1] The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1600, No. 1
[2] A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612, No. 9
[3] The First Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1597, No. 5
[4] Lachrimae or Seven Teares, 1604, No. 7
[5] A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612, No. 8
[6] The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1600, No. 19
[7] The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1600, No. 3
[8] The Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1600, No. 14
[9] A Musicall Banquet, 1610, No. 10
[10] Lachrimae or Seven Teares, 1604, No. 2
[11] A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612, Nos. 14-16
[12] The Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires, 1603, No. 5

Playing time: 28' 46" + 24' 51" = 53' 37" [LP] or 54' 33" [CD]

Performers:
Studio der frühen Musik
Andrea von Ramm (mezzo-soprano), Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Karl-Heinz Klein (bass), Sterling Scott Jones (discant gamba), Laurentius Strehl (alto gamba), Kurt Halselhorst (alto gamba, tenor gamba), Hans-Peter Winkel (tenor gamba, bass gamba), Johannes Finck (tenor gamba, bass gamba), Thomas E. Binkley (lute)
Thomas E. Binkley, dir.

Recording site and date:
Musikhochschule, Grosser Saal, Munich, Germany [08-09/1964];
Rel.: 1966 [LP], 2002 [CD]

Excerpts:
[1]-[2], [5]-[6], [12] Deutsche Grammophon 000819102 [CDx2] Dowland: Airs, Songs, Pavans
[1], [3], [6]-[8], [12] Archiv Produktion 199 001 [LP] "Am Hofe der Königin Elisabeth I" (with unrelated material from Ambrosian Singers - Denis Stevens, dir., and Lady Susi Jeans

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 501-78 (march 2003)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

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