“Superb.” International Record Review
“Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection..” BBC Music Magazine; “Atemberaubende Direktheit und Eleganz…” Klassik.com; “The quality of the music and the recording are quite outstanding.” Lute News; “Few singers are quite as compelling with only a lute for company… Lindberg’s … playing is both technically dazzling and poetic.” Gramophone
Sometime around 1600, John Dowland received a pavane composed by his patron Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, in honour of ‘the English Orpheus’. A hundred years later a collection of songs by Henry Purcell was published posthumously with the title Orpheus Britannicus. And although more than three centuries have passed since then, the mythical comparison still rings true. To quote Emma Kirkby’s own liner notes to the present disc, these giants in the history of English song ‘share the quality of arresting any listener with a directness and grace that takes our breath away still today, aligning us with the men, animals, plants and stones that were said to weep or dance, or both, when Orpheus sang to his instrument.’ Together with the lutenist Jakob Lindberg, Emma Kirkby has devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and that distillate of melancholy which is In darkness let me dwell, we are led via the desperation and drama of Bess of Bedlam to the conviction expressed in Music for a while that music has the power to vanquish even death. Interspersing the songs are lute solos, including Dowland’s immortal Lachrimae, but also Lindberg’s own transcriptions of Purcell pieces such as The Cibell and the Echo Dance of the Furies from Dido and Aeneas, performed on Lindberg’s unique four-hundred year old instrument. Kirkby and Lindberg are musical partners of long standing, with earlier collaborations on BIS including Musique and Sweet Poetrie, an acclaimed survey of the lute song across Europe around the year 1600. While the journey on the present disc is one in time rather than space, Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg remain the best guides imaginable.
John Dowland
01 Disdain me still 3’37
John Dowland
02 Lend your ears to my sorrow 2’56
John Dowland
03 Come, heavy sleep 4’08
John Dowland
04 Preludium 1’07
John Dowland
05 The Earl of Essex, his Galliard 1’52
John Dowland
06 A shepherd in a shade 2’32
John Dowland
07 By a fountain where I lay 2’36
John Dowland
08 Away with these self-loving lads 2’39
John Dowland
09 Lachrimæ 5’08
John Dowland
10 Tarleton’s Riserrectione 1’25
John Dowland
11 If that a sinner’s sighs 2’32
John Dowland
12 A Fantasie 4’15
John Dowland
13 Toss not my soul 2’55
John Dowland
14 In darkness let me dwell 3’42
Henry Purcell
15 She loves and she confesses too 1’52
Henry Purcell
16 They tell us that you mighty powers above 2’39
17 Trumpet Tune called the Cibell 1’35
18 Echo Dance of the Furies 1’15
19 Ritornello ‘The Grove’ 1’00
Henry Purcell
20 Fly swift, ye hours 5’09
Henry Purcell
21 Oh lead me to some peaceful gloom 2’35
Henry Purcell
22 What a sad fate is mine 2’47
23 Lilliburlero. A New Irish Tune 0’50
24 A New Scotch Tune 1’28
25 Hornpipe 0’48
26 A New Ground 2’23
Henry Purcell
27 From silent shades or Bess of Bedlam 3’57
Henry Purcell
28 Music for a while 3’44
Album total 75’19
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