Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford - Dowland: The Art of Melancholy – Lute Songs (2024) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford
Title: Dowland: The Art of Melancholy – Lute Songs
Year Of Release: 2014 / 2024
Label: Hyperion
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet) [96kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 1:16:30
Total Size: 1.25 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Sorrow, Stay, Lend True Repentant Tears (03:08)
2. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite (04:15)
3. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Go, Crystal Tears (03:18)
4. Mrs Winter's Jump (00:48)
5. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – I Saw My Lady Weep (05:42)
6. Flow, My Tears (04:45)
7. Can She Excuse My Wrongs? (02:23)
8. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Behold a Wonder Here (03:03)
9. Semper Dowland semper dolens (07:01)
10. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – In Darkness Let Me Dwell (03:52)
11. Time Stands Still (04:04)
12. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – All Ye Whom Love or Fortune Hath Betrayed (04:28)
13. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find (02:00)
14. Lachrimae (05:37)
15. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Come Away, Come Sweet Love (02:04)
16. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Shall I Strive with Words To Move? (02:00)
17. Burst Forth, My Tears (04:53)
18. Fortune My Foe (02:47)
19. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Come, Heavy Sleep (03:55)
20. Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford – Now, Oh Now I Needs Must Pt. – The Frog Galliard (06:18)

Countertenor Iestyn Davies has kept himself busy, releasing a steady stream of albums in the early 2010s that has propelled him to the top of his field. It's easy to see why people keep snapping them up: Davies has an unusually creamy voice and a gentle touch that make the music easy to settle into. The lute songs of John Dowland demand something more than a pleasant tone, however, and on this release Davies really shows what he can do. He's aided by an ideal collaborator in lutenist Thomas Dunford, and the delicacy and intricate ensemble of the pair is remarkable. The advertised melancholy builds to something of a climax about two-thirds of the way through, with the lute solo Lachrimae and the vocal pieces surrounding it, and rises emotionally again with the famous Come, heavy sleep (track 19). In these stretches Davies advances definitively from being another pretty voice to major-artist status. The Hyperion engineering team outdoes itself at Suffolk's ideal Potton Hall, capturing the deep spaces of this music whose essence is captured by the title of a much later composition, Music That Has Fallen Silent.

Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford - Dowland: The Art of Melancholy – Lute Songs.rar - 1.3 GB