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Songs of Passion: Purcell, Dowland | Erato 2173282845

Songs of Passion: Purcell, Dowland

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 2173282845

Barcode: 5021732828453

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Expected Release Date: 12th September 2025

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Contents

Works

Dowland, John

A Dream
First Booke of Songes or Ayres
» no.5 Can she excuse my wrongs?
» no.6 Now, o now, I needs must part
» no.9 Go, crystal tears
» no.17 Come again, sweet Love doth now invite
Flow my teares
Frog Galliard
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (7)
» no.1 Lachrimae Antiquae
Semper Dowland semper dolens, P9
Sorrow, stay
The Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P12
The King of Denmark's Galliard, P40

Purcell, Henry

An Evening Hymn, Z193 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light'
Come ye Sons of Art, Z323
» Strike the viol, touch the lute
Dido and Aeneas
» Ah! Belinda
» Echo Dance of the Furies
» Overture
» Thanks to these lonesome vales
» The Witches' Dance
» Thy hand, Belinda
» When I am laid in earth
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
The Fairy Queen, Z629
» Chaconne
» If love's a sweet passion
» Now the night is chac'd away
» O, let me weep (Act 5)

Artists

Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Dunford (lute)
Huw Montague Rendall (baritone)
Keyvan Chemirani (percussion)
Julien Martin (recorder)
Marine Sablonniere (recorder)
Jupiter Ensemble

Conductor

Thomas Dunford

Works

Dowland, John

A Dream
First Booke of Songes or Ayres
» no.5 Can she excuse my wrongs?
» no.6 Now, o now, I needs must part
» no.9 Go, crystal tears
» no.17 Come again, sweet Love doth now invite
Flow my teares
Frog Galliard
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (7)
» no.1 Lachrimae Antiquae
Semper Dowland semper dolens, P9
Sorrow, stay
The Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P12
The King of Denmark's Galliard, P40

Purcell, Henry

An Evening Hymn, Z193 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light'
Come ye Sons of Art, Z323
» Strike the viol, touch the lute
Dido and Aeneas
» Ah! Belinda
» Echo Dance of the Furies
» Overture
» Thanks to these lonesome vales
» The Witches' Dance
» Thy hand, Belinda
» When I am laid in earth
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
The Fairy Queen, Z629
» Chaconne
» If love's a sweet passion
» Now the night is chac'd away
» O, let me weep (Act 5)

Artists

Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Dunford (lute)
Huw Montague Rendall (baritone)
Keyvan Chemirani (percussion)
Julien Martin (recorder)
Marine Sablonniere (recorder)
Jupiter Ensemble

Conductor

Thomas Dunford

About

With Songs of Passion, a collection of vocal and instrumental music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell – English composers born nearly a century apart – mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, lutenist Thomas Dunford and Ensemble Jupiter have created a companion to their previous Erato albums, Eternal Heaven, Idylle and Amazone. Making guest appearances on Songs of Passion are four further singers of the rising generation: baritone (and Erato artist) Huw Montague Rendall, contralto Jess Dandy, tenor Laurence Kilsby and bass Alex Rosen.

Dowland is known for his intimate evocations of amorous melancholy in his writing for voice and for lute, while the music of Purcell – the greatest British-born composer of the Baroque era – encompasses a rich diversity of moods and emotions. To the fore on Songs of Passion are two of Purcell’s works for the stage: The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas. Dido’s famous lament, ‘When I am laid in earth’, forms the climax of the album.

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