Michał Gondko, Nigel North - Ophelia's Garden: English Lute Duets (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Paduan (Arr. for two lutes by Nigel North)
02. Round Battle Galliard (Arr. for two lutes by Nigel North)
03. Complaint (Arr. for two lutes by Nigel North)
04. My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home
05. Flat Pavan and Galliard: I. Pavan
06. Flat Pavan and Galliard: II. Galliard
07. Sellinger’s Round
08. Twenty Ways Upon The Bells
09. A Fantasie
10. A Toy
11. The Woods So Wild (Arr. for two lutes by Nigel North)
12. La Vecchia Pavan and Galliard: I. Pavan
13. La Vecchia Pavan and Galliard: II. Galliard
14. Chi Passa
15. Upon Lamire (Arr. for two lutes by Nigel North)
16. My Lady Carey’s Dump (Arr. for two lutes by Nigel North)
17. Ophelia's Garden
18. A Fancy (Marchant)
19. A Fancy (Danyel)
20. A Fancy (Drewries Accordes)
21. A Plain Song
22. The Queen’s Goodnight
23. De La Tromba Pavan
24. Passymeasures Galliard
25. La Rossignol

Ophelia’s Garden is the much anticipated duo album of two of our finest lutenists, Michał Gondko and Nigel North, exquisitely recorded in the glorious acoustic of St Andrew's Toddington. It features popular lute duets from Elizabethan England by John Dowland, John Johnson, Thomas Robinson and their contemporaries, in new arrangements and reconstructions by Nigel North.

The title piece of the album, Ophelia’s Garden, is a new lute duet by Welsh composer Stephen Goss, based on Ophelia’s harrowing mad scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet. These pieces, old and new, will delight the listener as much today as they did 400 years ago.