JOHN DOWLAND (c.1563-1626)
Semper Dowland Semper Dolens

CD I

1 Mrs Winter’s Jump
2 The Shoemaker’s Wife
3 The Frog Galliard
4 Mr John Langton’s Pavan

5 Mr Langton’s Galliard
6 Go From My Window
7 Sir John Smith, His Almain
8 Round Battle Galliard

9 Fantasie
10 La Mia Barbara
11 Mrs Norrish’s Delight
12 Mrs Nichols’ Almain

13 Fancy
14 Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
15 The King Of Denmark, His Galliard
16 Untitled

CD II

1 Dr Case’s Pavan
2 Gagliarda
3 Lachrimae
4 Lady Laiton’s Almain

5 Preludium
6 My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home
7 Une Jeune Fillette
8 Lord Strang’s March

9 Fortune
10 Can She Excuse
11 What If A Day
12 Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe

13 Fancy
14 Solus Cum Sola
15 The Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
16 Tarleton’s Riserrectione

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About this CD

One of the most attractive and poignant repertories from across the whole Renaissance is undoubtedly to be found in the output of John Dowland, the composer of the greatly-admired Lachrimae and the musical representative of a whole philosophical, literary and artistic outlook when it comes to evoking melancholy. Lutenist José Miguel Moreno, co-founder of Glossa and architect of cult recordings devoted to Sylvius Leopold Weiss, JS Bach and Robert de Visée, could not miss out on his encounter with English repertoire and, in 2002, he recorded this double disc covering, across some 32 pieces, the most significant of Dowland’s works, and accompanied by Eligio Quinteiro on the theorbo or gittern (Renaissance guitar). This is one of those albums which define the whole aesthetic standpoint of a label…