034571176482

Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten: Nocturnal

Mark Padmore, Elizabeth Kenny, Craig Ogden

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67648

Release Date:  01 January 2008

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571176482

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    Mark Padmore is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest tenors working today, celebrated in the opera house, the concert hall and as a peerless recording artist. He is admired—among other things—for his ‘extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy … [his] joy in conveying the emotional core of each situation’ (Gramophone) and it is these facets of his performance—together with the exquisite musicianship of Elizabeth Kenny—which make this disc of Dowland songs such a delight. The little world of each song is sensitively explored and beautifully expressed.
    Elizabeth Kenny writes in her scholarly booklet notes that ‘over the years many great singers have made Dowland’s voice their own, and this is one of our starting points for this disc’. Padmore and Kenny have used some perhaps less familiar manuscripts to perform a number of these songs and the result is fascinating.
    Britten’s Nocturnal after John Dowland, written for Julian Bream in 1963, is an extended exploration of the tensions and nightmares behind the song Come, heavy Sleep, and receives a darkly brilliant performance here by Craig Ogdon.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Unquiet Thoughts
      • 2. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
      • 3. Sorrow, Stay!
      • 4. Away With These Self-Loving Lads
      • 5. Fantasia No.7
      • 6. Come Again! Sweet Love
      • 7. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts -
      • 8. Come, Heavy Sleep
      • 9. I. Musingly (Meditativo)
      • 10. II. Very Agitated (Molto Agitato)
      • 11. III. Restless (Inquieto)
      • 12. IV. Uneasy (Ansioso)
      • 13. V. March-like (Quasi Una Marcia)
      • 14. VI. Dreaming (Sognante)
      • 15. VII. Gently Rocking (Cullante)
      • 16. VIII. Passacaglia: Meaured (Misurato) - Slow And Quiet (Molto Tranquillo)
      • 17. Flow, My Tears
      • 18. I Must Complain
      • 19. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
      • 20. Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
      • 21. What If I Never Speed?
      • 22. To Ask For All Thy Love
      • 23. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
      • 24. In Darkness Let Me Dwell

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