Lute Music

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Product description Sir John Smith's Almain - Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard - My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home - Melancholy Galliard - My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe - Piper's Pavan - The Earl of Essex Galliard - Fortune My Foe - Lady Laiton's Almain - Lachrimae - Queen Elizabeth's Galliard, etc. / Ronn McFarlane, luth - date de sortie : 01/09/1998 .co.uk Dowland's lute works are among the most beautiful compositions of the Renaissance period. Because so many of his pieces are wistful and sad, he was known as "the melancholy Dowland," although McFarlane's selection offers a fair number of more cheerful pieces. These performances are extremely stylish, alert and expressive in every moment of the music. Paul O'Dette's Dowland recordings for Harmonia Mundi are also very well played and include all of the composer's music on five discs. For a single-disc introduction to the composer, this Dorian CD is ideal. Dowland fanatics will need O'Dette's series, and perhaps McFarlane's also. Dorian's sound is extremely realistic. --Leslie Gerber