DOWLAND: LUTE SONGS & MORE - JAMES BOWMAN, ROBERT SPENCER

James Bowman sings Dowland Lute Songs

with Robert Spencer, lute

“This admirable record contains songs from all three Bookes & more. … The lute solos are played in exemplary fashion by Robert Spencer. A fine single-disc introduction to Dowland’s art, since it includes justly famous pieces… sung with wonderful artistry by James Bowman who brings sensitivity and intelligence to each song and characterises them tellingly. … There is no lack of contrast and each phrase is floated with imagination… recording very good, real and present.”— Penguin Guide

Thomas Campion: Fair, if you expect admiring / I care not for these ladies / It fell on a summer’s day / The cypress curtain of the night
Danyel: Eyes, look no more / Like as the Lute Delights / What delight can they enjoy
John Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite / Go Crystal tears / Can she excuse my wrongs? / Awake, sweet love / Sorrow, stay / Shall I sue? / Fine knacks for ladies / Prelude for lute / Lachrimae Pavan (lute solo) / What if I never speed? / Me, me, and none but me / Flow not so fast, ye fountains / When Phoebus first did Daphne love / Lady, if you so spite me / Shall I strive with wordes to move? / Tell me, true Love / Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (lute solo) / Lady Laiton’s Almain (lute solo) / Captain Candish’s Galliard (lute solo)
Philip Rosseter: Sweet come again / Whether men do laugh