Maria The Schoole of Night - Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (2015)

Tracklist
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01. I Saw My Lady Weep
02. Flow, My Tears, Fall from Your Springs
03. Sorrow, Stay, Lend True Repentant Tears
04. Die Not Before Thy Day
05. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is with Darkness Fled
06. Time's Eldest Son: Pt. 1, Time's Eldest Son
07. Time's Eldest Son: Pt. 2, Then Sit Thee Down, and Say Thy Nunc dimittis
08. Time's Eldest Son: Pt. 3, When Others Sing Venite exultemus
09. Praise Blindness, Eyes, for Seeing Is Deceit
10. O Sweet Woods, the Delight of Solitariness
11. If Floods of Tears Could Cleanse My Follies Past
12. Fine Knacks for Ladies
13. Now Cease, My Wandering Eyes
14. Come, Ye Heavy States of Night
15. White as Lilies Was Her Face
16. Woeful Heart with Grief Oppressed
17. A Shepherd in a Shade
18. Faction, That Ever Dwells in Court
19. Shall I Sue, Shall I Seek for Grace?
20. Toss Not My Soul
21. Clear or Cloudy Sweet as April Showering
22. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here
23. Resolution, P. 13

John Dowland, of English or possibly Irish origin, was born in 1563, probably in London. He was a lutenist of distinction but failed, allegedly because he was a Catholic, to win a position in the royal service, and therefore sought his fortune abroad at Kassel and later, in 1598, at the court of Christian IV of Denmark. He was forced by debt to return to England in 1606 and eventually won appointment as one of the King’s Lutes in 1612. He performed during the funeral ceremonies of King James I and ironically dying the following year. Dowland was the composer, in particular, of one of the best-known songs of the period, Flow, my teares, music much imitated and epitomising the fashionable humour of the day - melancholy.