Alfred Deller’s Dowland has become part of our history. The most legendary of English countertenors distilled the very essence of the melancholy of the 17th century English song in general and of the composer of the Lachrimae in particular.
This title was released for the first time in 1978.
JOHN DOWLAND [1562/1563-1626] Lute Songs, Lute Solos · Flow, my tears (5'12) · Galliard (0'57) · The Lady Laiton's Almain (1'03) · Fortune my Foe (3'32) · The Frog Galliard (1'46) · Weep you no more, sad Fountains (3'43) · Me, me, and none but me (3'42) · What if I never speed? (2'09) · Lasso, vita mia (4'33) · Toy: The Shoesmaker's Wife (1'19) · Galliard: Can she excuse (1'43) · Mistress White's Thing (1'14) · The Round Battle Galliard (1'31) · Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me of my heart? (1'37) · Come away, come, sweet love (2'23) · Sorrow, stay (4'06) · If that sinner's sighs (3'27) · Midnight (0'56) · Say, Love, if ever you didst find? (2'22) · Lachrimae Pavan (4'29) · Galliard: Can she excuse (1'37) · If my complaints could passions move (4'33) · Katherine Darcy's Galliard (1'20)
Lute Songs, Lute Solos · Come again, sweet love (2'18) · I saw my lady weep (3'57) · Orlando sleepeth (1'26) · Tarlton's Resurrection (1'05) · Sir John Smith's Almain (3'02) · Mistress White's Nothing (1'10) · My Lord Chamberlain's Galliard (2'32) · From silent night (4'52) · Flow not so fast, ye fountains (4'10) · My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (2'42) · Mistress Winter's Jump (0'51) · Melancholy Galliard (3'16) · My Lady Hundson's Puff (1'22) · Shall I sue? (2'39) · In darkness let me dwell (4'37) · The First Galliard (1'55) · Can she excuse my wrongs? (4'21) · Come, heavy Sleep (5'00) · Captain Digory Piper's Pavan and Galliard (6'37) · Go, nightly cares (4'19)
