Composer: John Dowland, Henry Purcell
Performer: Emma Kirkby, Jakob Lindberg
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2011
Size: 664 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
John Dowland:
01. Book of Songs, Book 2: Disdain me still, that I may ever love
02. Book of Songs, Book 3: Lend your ears to my sorrow, good people
03. Come heavy sleep
04. Prelude for lute
05. Varietie of Lute Lessons, II. The Right Honourable Earl of Essex, His Galliard (42a)
06. A Shepherd in a Shade
07. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires: By a fountain where I lay
08. Away with these self-loving lads
09. Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15
10. Tarleton’s Riserrectione
11. A Pilgrimes Solace: If that a sinner’s sighs be angel’s food
12. Varietie of Lute Lessons: X. A Fantasie (1a)
Henry Purcell:
13. Book of Songs, Book 2: Toss not my soul
14. Book of Songs, Book 4, “A Pilgrimes Solace”: In darkness let me dwell
15. She loves and she confesses too, Z413
16. The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act IV: They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers (arr. for soprano and lute)
17. Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT 678, called the Cibell
Dido and Aeneas (arr. J. Lindberg)
18. Act II: Echo Dance of Furies
19. Act II: The Groves Dance
20. Fly swift ye hours, Z369
21. Bonduca, Z. 574, “The British Heroine”: No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom
22. What a sad fate is mine, Z428
23. The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid: A New Irish Tune in G Major, Z. 646, “Lilliburlero” (arr. J. Lindberg)
24. The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid : A New Scotch Tune in C Major, Z. 655 (arr. J. Lindberg)
25. The Old Batchelor, Z. 607: Hornpipe in E Minor (arr. J. Lindberg)
26. A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682
27. From silent shades (‘Bess of Bedlam’) Z370
28. Music for a while, Z583
Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg have devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and the melancholy of 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 (BISSACD1505), a survey of the lute song across Europe around the year 1600. ‘A grand tour conducted by a pair of ideal guides’ was how the reviewer in Gramophone described that disc, while his colleague in International Record Review found that the ‘undeniably glorious performances’ made the disc ‘a journey well worth making’.