Dowland - Whose Heavenly Touch on CD

Description

This recording, devoted to Dowland, seems to open a door onto a secret garden, one tended and cultivated by two artists already well known for opera and song recitals that distil the chamber music principle into its most intimate essence of expressive sound: soprano Mariana Flores and lutenist Hopkinson Smith. Here they give us a Dowland programme straight from the heart, drawing on five of the composer's volumes of 'Songs Or Ayres' printed in London between 1597 and 1612, laying bare Dowland's ecstatic and tortured soul as it oscillates between all the different states of melancholy love.

Tracks

1. Flow, My Tears
2. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
3. O Sweet Woods
4. I Saw My Lady Weep
5. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
6. All Ye, Whom Love of Fortune Hath Betray'd
7. Mignarda
8. Fine Knacks for Ladies
9. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
10. Come, Heavy Sleep
11. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
12. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
13. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
14. Go Crystal Tears
15. Go Crystal Tears
16. Come Again!
17. Sorrow, Sorrow Stay