The English Lute Song
The lute songs of earlier Elizabethan times, such as those by Campion, Dowland and Morley are distinguished by directness, relative simplicity of vocal line, and musical fidelity to the rhythm of the text. Furthermore, throughout the Renaissance and early Baroque, in England as in no other country, song was shaped by the firm authority of poets, who took a dim view of the singer who might "hide the light of sense with divisions." - Julianne Baird
Tracks
- This Merry Pleasant Spring
- Woods, rocks and mountains
- April is in my mistress' face
- No More Shall Meads be Deck'd With Flow'rs
- The French King's Masque
- Come my Celia
- O Death Rock Me Asleep
- Where the bee sucks
- Full fathom five
- Come away, Hecate
- The Willow Song
- Hit and Take It
- Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong
- Come hither you that love
- Have you seen the bright lily grow?
- I Must Complain
- Nothing on Earth
- Fain Would I Wed
- Miserere my Maker [17th Century]: Miserere my Maker
- O That Mine Eyes
- Alman*: Alman
- Care-charming sleep
- Cupid is Venus' Only Joy
- Oh, let us howl
- As Life What is so Sweet
- Turn, Turn Thy Beauteous Face Away!
- Take, O Take Those Lips Away
