Thwarted Ambition
Donald Macleod introduces music from this English renaissance composer and from composers and performers, past and present, drawn to the exquisite beauty of Dowland's melodies.
Like many writers, musicians and artists of Elizabethan times, the composer and virtuoso lute player John Dowland imbued his art-form with an exquisite melancholy. The beauty and simplicity of the melodic lines he created enchanted not only his contemporaries but also composers and performers of recent years. Donald Macleod introduces a selection of Dowland's own songs and lute pieces plus the first of two pieces by Benjamin Britten featured this week, based on one of Dowland's most popular songs and written for another virtuoso - Julian Bream.
Mrs Winter's Jump (arr Claire van Kampen)
Musicians of Shakespeare's Globe
Flow my tears
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Dunford (lute)
My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe; Sir John Smith's Almaine; Farwell
Julian Bream (lute)
Sleep wayward thoughts; Come away, come sweet love; Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Consort of Musicke
Come heavy sleep
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Dunford (lute)
Britten: Nocturnal
Sean Shibe (guitar).
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John Dowland
Mrs Winter's Jump
Ensemble: The Musicians Of Shakespeare'S Globe.- Globe Music GM008.
- Globe Music.
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John Dowland
Flow my tears
Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Iestyn Davies.- Flow My Tears.
- Wigmore Live.
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John Dowland
My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Performer: Julian Bream.- JULIAN BREAM PLAYS DOWLAND.
- RCA.
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John Dowland
Sir John Smith his Almaine
Performer: Julian Bream.- JULIAN BREAM PLAYS DOWLAND.
- RCA.
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John Dowland
Farewell
Performer: Julian Bream.- JULIAN BREAM PLAYS DOWLAND.
- RCA.
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John Dowland
Sleepe wayward thoughts
Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Martyn Hill.- DOWLAND John: Weep you no more, sad fountains.
- L`OISEAU LYRE.
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John Dowland
Come away, come sweet love
Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: John York Skinner. Singer: David Thomas. Singer: Martyn Hill.- DOWLAND John: Weep you no more, sad fountains.
- L`OISEAU LYRE.
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John Dowland
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Singer: Martyn Hill. Ensemble: Consort of Musicke.. Director: Anthony Rooley.- DOWLAND John: Weep you no more, sad fountains.
- L`OISEAU LYRE.
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John Dowland
Come heavy sleep
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- Hyperion : CDA68007.
- Hyperion.
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Benjamin Britten
Nocturnal after John Dowland
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Delphian DCD34193.
- Delphian.
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- Mon 19 Feb 2018 12:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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