Dowland: Ayres

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Dowland’s penchant for gloomy subjects was well-known – his most representative piece is the pavane Lachrimae – but this exceptionally rich and varied program also shows him at ease with humor, amorous dalliance, virile and extrovert dance music. This recording features the countertenor Gérard Lesne, who was last heard on Naïve's "O Solitude,"a collection of songs by Purcell.

Dowland: Ayres, Music, Gerard Lesne, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons Viola Ensemble, Jacob Heringman, Chamber, Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Vocals, Lute Solo, Renaissance Polyphonic Song, Secular Music for Soloists, Chorus and Instruments, Solo Voice and Continuo, Solo Voice(s) and Small Ensemble, Vocal
Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A musical treasure-box
  • a beautiful journey into melancholy
Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
John Dowland , Anthony Rooley , Emma Kirkby , Christopher Wilson , The Consort of Musicke , Colin Tilney , Anthony Bailes , Jakob Lindberg , Nigel North , Glenda Simpson , Peter Holman , and John Donne
Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000004CYV
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

  1. First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
  2. First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
  3. First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
  4. First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
  5. First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
  6. First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
  7. First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
  8. First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
  9. First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
  10. First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
  11. First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
  12. First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
  13. First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
  14. First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
  15. First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
  16. First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
  17. First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
  18. First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
  19. First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
  20. First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
  21. First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

  1. Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
  2. Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
  3. Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
  4. Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
  5. Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
  6. Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
  7. Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
  8. Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
  9. Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
  10. Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
  11. Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
  12. Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
  13. Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
  14. Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
  15. Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
  16. Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
  17. Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
  18. Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
  19. Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
  20. Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
  21. Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
  22. Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

  1. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
  2. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
  3. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
  4. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
  5. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
  6. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
  7. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
  8. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
  9. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
  10. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
  11. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
  12. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
  13. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
  14. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
  15. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
  16. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
  17. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
  18. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
  19. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
  20. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
  21. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

  1. A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
  2. A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
  3. A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
  4. A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
  5. A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
  6. A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
  7. A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
  8. A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
  9. A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
  10. A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
  11. A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
  12. A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
  13. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
  14. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
  15. A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
  16. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

  1. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
  2. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
  3. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
  4. A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
  5. A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
  6. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
  7. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
  8. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
  9. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
  10. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
  11. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
  12. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
  13. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
  14. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
  15. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
  16. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
  17. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

  1. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
  2. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
  3. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
  4. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
  5. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
  6. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
  7. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
  8. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
  9. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
  10. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
  11. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
  12. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
  13. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
  14. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
  15. Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
  16. Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
  17. Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
  18. Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
  19. Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
  20. Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
  21. Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
  22. Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
  23. Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
  24. Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
  25. Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
  26. Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
  27. Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
  28. Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

  1. Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
  2. Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
  3. Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
  4. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
  5. Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
  6. Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
  7. Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
  8. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
  9. Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
  10. A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
  11. Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
  12. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
  13. Instrumental Music: Galliard
  14. Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
  15. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
  16. Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
  17. Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
  18. Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
  19. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
  20. Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
  21. Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
  22. Instrumental Music: Comagain
  23. Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
  24. Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Preludium
  2. Lute Music: Lachrimae
  3. Lute Music: Can She Excuse
  4. Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
  5. Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
  6. Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
  7. Lute Music: Fantasia
  8. Lute Music: A Dream
  9. Lute Music: Almain
  10. Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
  11. Lute Music: Coranto
  12. Lute Music: Resolution
  13. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
  14. Lute Music: Almain
  15. Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
  16. Lute Music: Fantasia
  17. Lute Music: Loth To Depart
  18. Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
  19. Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
  20. Lute Music: Pavan
  21. Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
  22. Lute Music: Aloe
  23. Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
  24. Lute Music: What If A Day
  25. Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
  26. Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
  27. Lute Music: Galliard
  28. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
  2. Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
  3. Lute Music: [Jig]
  4. Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
  5. Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
  6. Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
  7. Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
  8. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
  9. Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
  10. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
  11. Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
  12. Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
  13. Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
  14. Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
  15. Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
  16. Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
  17. Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
  18. Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
  19. Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
  20. Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
  21. Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
  22. Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
  23. Lute Music: Galliard
  24. Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
  25. Lute Music: Galliard
  26. Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
  27. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
  2. Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
  3. Lute Music: La mia Barbara
  4. Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
  5. Lute Music: Lachrimae
  6. Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
  7. Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
  8. Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
  9. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
  10. Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
  11. Lute Music: Galliard
  12. Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
  13. Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
  14. Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
  15. Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
  16. Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
  17. Lute Music: Galliard
  18. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
  19. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
  20. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
  21. Lute Music: Solus cum sola
  22. Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
  23. Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
  24. Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
  25. Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
  26. Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
  2. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
  3. Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
  4. Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
  5. Lute Music: A Coy Toy
  6. Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
  7. Lute Music: [Almain]
  8. Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
  9. Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
  10. Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
  11. Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
  12. Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
  13. Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
  14. Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
  15. Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
  16. Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
  17. Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
  18. Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
  19. Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
  20. Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
  21. Consort Music: Almain a 2
  22. Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
  23. Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
  24. Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
  25. Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
  26. Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
  27. Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

  1. Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
  2. Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
  3. Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
  4. Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
  5. Consort Music: Pavan a 4
  6. A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
  7. A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
  8. A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
  9. A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
  10. A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
  11. A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
  12. A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
  13. A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
  14. A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
  15. A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
  16. A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
  17. A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
  18. A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
  19. A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
  20. A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
  21. A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
  22. A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
  23. A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
  24. A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
  25. A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

5 out of 5 stars a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).
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    ASIN: B000003ERG
    Release Date: 1990-10-25

    Tracks:

    1. Morley Joyne Hands
    2. Phillips Phillips Pavin
    3. Dowland The Frog Galliard
    4. Nicholson The Jew's Delight
    5. Morley The Sacred End Pavin
    6. And Galliard
    7. Alison De La Tromba Pavin
    8. Morley Tirsis And Milla
    9. Alison Alison's Knell
    10. Anonymous Grimstock
    11. Alison Alison's Knell
    12. Anonymous Grimstock
    13. Alison Goe From My Window
    14. Dowland Goe Nightly Cares
    15. Bachelor Daniel's Almain
    16. Stogers In Nomine Pavin
    17. Dowland Eyck Come Again
    18. Dowland Lachrimae Pavin
    19. Dowland Can She Excuse

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    If you had to reduce your recordings of 16th-century instrumental music to only one disc (a horrendous thought!), you'd do very well to keep this one. Rarely is any recording of any repertoire so well conceived, programmed, and performed--and rarely is the music so consistently and incredibly beautiful. The age in which this music was created may have been infinitely different from ours, but we dearly need music with such sincerity and heart these days. Lutenist Julian Bream and his period-instrument ensemble draw us into an enchanting world of beautiful, sometimes heartbreaking melodies and lovely harmonies. Occasionally we hear a lively dance, and a few times we hear Robert Tear's plaintive tenor. But mostly it's the viols, Renaissance flute, cittern, and lute performing some of the finest examples of English Renaissance music we're ever likely to hear. --David Vernier
    O Sweet Woods
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      O Sweet Woods

      Manufacturer: Metronome
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00005YKTL
      Release Date: 1995-03-08
      Dowland: The First Booke of Songes
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        Dowland: The First Booke of Songes

        Manufacturer: Bis
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        1. Songs from the Labyrinth (Music by John Dowland)
        2. Royal Lewters: Music of Henry VIII & Elizabeth I's

        ASIN: B0000016F4
        Release Date: 1994-03-25

        Tracks:

        1. (19) Awake Sweet Love Thou Art Returnd
        2. (10) Thinkst Thou Then By The Fayning?
        3. (5) Can She Excuse My Wrongs With Vertues Cloake
        4. (9) Goe Crystall Teares
        5. (3) My Thoughts Are Wingd With Hopes
        6. (20) Come Heavy Sleepe
        7. (18) His Golden Locks Time Has To Silver Turnd
        8. (11) Come Away, Come Sweet Love
        9. (4) If My Complaints Could Passions Move
        10. (14) All Ye Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betrayed
        11. (2) Who Ever Thinkes Or Hopes Of Love For Love
        12. (21) Away With These Self-Loving Lads
        13. (6) Now, O Now I Needs Must Part
        14. (17) Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
        15. (13) Sleep Wayward Thoughts
        16. (7) Deare If You Change Ile Never Chuse Againe
        17. (1) Unquiet Thoughts
        18. (16) Would My Conceit That First Enforst My Woe
        19. (15) Wilt Thou, Unkind, Thus Reave Me Of My Heart?
        20. (8) Burst Forth, My Teares
        21. (12) Rest A While You Cruell Cares

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        No one in Elizabethan England could write a tune like Dowland. This supreme melodist and lute player composed some of the most beloved and enduring songs of any age, and today Dowland remains one of the most exalted--and most recorded--composers of the late-16th and early 17th centuries. His songs with lute are among the finest and most harmonically innovative of the genre. Their subject is often some aspect of love, most likely focusing on sadness, longing, or death. The "First Book of Songs" is the least melancholy of his collections, and contains some of his most famous songs--such as "Now, O Now I Needs Must Part," "Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite," and "Come Away, Come Sweet Love." Rogers Covey-Crump's gentle, articulate, and gorgeous tenor is the perfect voice for these pieces, and lutenist Jakob Lindberg is an ideal partner. --David Vernier
        Ayres & Lute Lessons
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          Ayres & Lute Lessons
          Dowland , Bowman , and Spencer
          Manufacturer: Saga Classics
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD
          ASIN: B00008FQ0L
          Release Date: 1993-10-19
          Dowland: Ayres Book1
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            Dowland: Ayres Book1

            Manufacturer: Disques Pierre Verany
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            ASIN: B00002404E
            Release Date: 1994-01-01

            Tracks:

            1. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: What If I Never Speed?
            2. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Go Crystal Tears
            3. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: A Shepherd In The Shade
            4. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes (Tenor Solo)
            5. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Prelude et Gaillarde (Lute)
            6. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
            7. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Tell Me True Love
            8. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me?
            9. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Come Again, Sweet Love
            10. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: If My Complaints Should Passions Move
            11. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Sweet Stay Awhile (Tenor Solo)
            12. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
            13. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: All Ye Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
            14. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Semper Dowland, semper dolens (Lute)
            15. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Come Heavy Sleep
            16. Ayers & Lute-Lessons: Away With The Self-Loving Lads
            Dowland: Ayres
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              Dowland: Ayres

              Manufacturer: Astree
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              All Works by DowlandAll Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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              ASIN: B0001HZ6OM
              Release Date: 2004-05-18

              Album Description

              Dowland's penchant for gloomy subjects was well-known - his most representative piece is the pavane Lachrimae - but this exceptionally rich and varied program also shows him at ease with humor, amorous dalliance, virile and extrovert dance music. This recording features the countertenor Gérard Lesne, who was last heard on Naïve's "O Solitude,"a collection of songs by Purcell.
              English Ayres & Duets
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                English Ayres & Duets

                Manufacturer: Hyperion
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

                Baroque Dance SuitesBaroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande
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                ASIN: B000002ZFZ
                Release Date: 1993-09-01

                Tracks:

                1. If Thou Long'st So Much To Learn
                2. Fine Knacks For Ladies
                3. Shall I Come, Sweet Love?
                4. Piper's Galliard
                5. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
                6. Tell Me, O Love
                7. Time's Eldest Song, Old Age
                8. Tobacco, Tobacco
                9. Flow My Tears
                10. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
                11. Eyes Look No More
                12. My Choice Is Made
                13. The Earl Of Essex Galliard
                14. Now What Is Love?
                15. Come Away, Come, Sweet Love
                16. Humour, Say What Mak'st Thou Here
                Dowland: Ayres & Lute Lessons
                Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                • Fine Art
                • Fine collection of songs, well performed
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                Dowland: Ayres & Lute Lessons

                Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

                All Works by DowlandAll Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                GeneralGeneral | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
                Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems
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                ASIN: B000027O2W
                Release Date: 1992-12-16

                Tracks:

                1. Unquiet Thoughts
                2. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Or Loves
                3. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
                4. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
                5. Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
                6. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
                7. Dear, If You Change
                8. Burst Forth, My Tears
                9. Go Crystal Tears
                10. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning?
                11. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
                12. Rest Awhile You Cruel Cares
                13. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
                14. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune
                15. Wilt Thou, Unkind, Thus Reave Me?
                16. Would My Conceit
                17. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
                18. His Golden Locks
                19. Awake, Sweet Love, Thou Art Return'd
                20. Come, Heavy Sleep
                21. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

                Customer Reviews:

                5 out of 5 stars Fine Art.......2003-12-03

                I only have to briefly comment that the works of John Dowland are simply wonderful. This work is dressed with the rich, enjoyable and fine interpretation provided by The Deller Consort. I have it and recommend to everyone who appreciates lute music !

                5 out of 5 stars Fine collection of songs, well performed.......2002-08-07

                First of all, this is an offset to the other "review" which is actually the rantings and ravings of a lunatic who thought she was posting a letter to some company where one might buy a perambulator.
                Anyway, this CD has a sweet collection of Dowland songs, recorded in 1982. Paul Elliott and Mark Deller and Rosemary Hardy are all in fine voice.

                PLEASE NOTE: The initial listing of recorded tracks is incorrect, the secondary listing is correct, beginning with track 1. "What if i never speed?"

                1 out of 5 stars unsatisfied customer.......2001-11-16

                this review is a complaint about service with the hope of it reaching someone who actually cares about the standard of service you provide and the way a customer with a genuine complaint about your service is treated. My daughter is eight months pregnant and decided to buy her pram from your company so looked through your direct catalogue and found the one she liked it offered a free cosy toes and changing bag and the page in the catalogue also offered a ten pound money off voucher.Armed with MY credit card we telephoned and ordered the pram but when she came to give the code for the voucher she was told that she could only use it instore she tried to argue that her nearest store was forty miles away and this was why she was using the catalogue and why put the voucher in the catalogue in the first place if you cant use it but was curtly told that was the rules then that was followed up by the offer on the cosytoes and changing bag only being available instore also, even after this she still decided to go ahead with the purchase so after the girl geting some details wrong three times, gave my credit card number and was told to expect delivery in a few days. The following Monday not one but two prams were delivered to her and on phoning she discovered that two prams had also been debited to my credit card. After tolerating a really bad attitude from a member of staff she finally spoke to a supervisor who said she would look into it and phone her back which they didn't, she had to make several phone calls before someone told her that the second pram would be picked up the folowing Thursday and my credit card would be credited the same day. Well sure enough the pram was picked up and as a token a set of cosytoes and changing bag were given to my daughter unfortunately they did not match the pram but nevertheless we thought that was that oh no it wasn't,. Meawhile as my husbands birthday is approaching I decided as a surprise that we would have a few days away so found a location I liked and booked it using my credit card only to find the booking cancelled due to there not being enough credit on my card on phoning my company I found out that I had not had the money refunded from your company so my daughter gets back on the phone only to encounter someone called Tracey with a real attitude problem who felt it necessary to lay the blame on my daughter again she had to ask to speak to a superior who said she would look into it and phone her back again she didn't so my daughter phoned back this morning and was again told she would be called back before 2p.m.when this didn't happen she again called back only to be told that the person who was supposed to call her back didn't want to speak to her. Now you tell me is this the sort of treatment a customer should expect? Idon't think so not only has an 8 month pregnant woman had to be put through unecessary stress but had to put up with all sorts of abuse from staff and to crown it all I have lost a surprise birthday present for my husband through incompetence. Let us just wait and see what explanation this company comes up with for this. I eagerly await you reply either on this site or by direct Email. yours angrily LINDA CONNOR
                Ayres (Songs)
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                  Ayres (Songs)
                  Dowland , and Hilliard Ensemble
                  Manufacturer: Capitol
                  ProductGroup: Music
                  Binding: Audio CD
                  ASIN: B00004SLGX
                  Release Date: 1993-11-16

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