Hopkinson Smith, Mariana Flores - Dowland: Whose Heavenly Touch (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Second Book of Songes: No. 2, Flow My Tears
02. The Second Book of Songes: No. 11, Come Away, Come Sweet Love
03. The Second Book of Songes: No. 10, O Sweet woods, the Delight of Solitariness
04. The Second Book of Songes: No. 1, I Saw My Lady Weep
05. The First Booke of Songes: No. 5, Can She Excuse My Wrongs
06. The First Booke of Songes: No. 14, All ye, whom Love or Fortune
07. Mignarda
08. The Second Book of Songes: No. 12, Fine Knacks for Ladies
09. The First Booke of Songes: No. 6, Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
10. The First Booke of Songes: No. 20, Come, Heavy Sleep
11. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
12. The First Booke of Songes: No. 4, The First Booke of Songes
13. The First Booke of Songes: No. 15, Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
14. The First Booke of Songes: No. 9, Go crystal tears
15. The First Booke of Songes: No. 9, Go crystal tears
16. The First Booke of Songes: No. 17, Come Again
17. The Second Book of Songes: No. 3, Sorrow, Sorrow, Stay, lend True Repentant Tears



This recording, devoted to Dowland, seems to open a door onto a secret garden, one tended and cultivated by two artists already well known for opera and song recitals that distil the chamber music principle into its most intimate essence of expressive sound: soprano Mariana Flores and lutenist Hopkinson Smith.

Here they give us a Dowland programme straight from the heart, drawing on five of the composer’s volumes of ‘Songs or Ayres’ printed in London between 1597 and 1612, laying bare Dowland’s ecstatic and tortured soul as it oscillates between all the different states of melancholy love.

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