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NEDERLANDSE
VERSIE

PROGRAM

LACHRIMAE, SONGS and AIRS

Side A
John DOWLAND (1562-1626)
Flow my tears (Second Book of Songs, 1600)

What if I never speed? (Third and last Book of Songs and Airs, 1603)

Fantasie - No 7 (Varietie of lute-lessons by Robert Dowland)

Can she excuse my wrongs (First Book of Songs, 1597)

Come heavy sleep (First Book of Songs, 1597)

The lowest trees have tops (Third and last Book of Songs and Airs, 1603)

Mr. Winters Jump (instrumental)

Side B
John DOWLAND
Come again! (First Book of Songs, 1597)

Wilt thou unkind thus reave me (First Book of Songs, 1597)

Fantasie Mr. Dowlande - No 6 (instrumental)

Anonymous / William SHAKESPEARE
The willow song

John BARTLETT
All my wits hath will enwrapped (A Book of Ayres, 1606)

John DOWLAND
Fortune my foe - No 62 (instrumental)

Robert JOHNSON (1582-1633)
Arm, Arm, Arm! (Songs from the Plays)


FEATURES

artists: Raphaella Smits, guitar & Guy De Mey, tenor
titel:
LACHRIMAE, SONGS AND AIRS
composers:
John DOWLAND, John BARTLETT and Robert JOHNSON
label: AV Records, BE
LP number: AV89
recorded: by Johan Dehandschutter at the Sint Stefanuskerk of Melsen, Oost-Vlaanderen, BE, July 1980
instrument : 8-string guitar by John Gilbert (USA) (1980)
total duration:
illustration: by Johan De Vos


LACHRIMAE, SONGS AND AIRS
Raphaella SMITS and tenor Guy DE MEY present works by John DOWLAND, John BARTLETT and Robert JOHNSON

PROGRAM
FEATURES
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY

This LP (long playing) is not available anymore. It has become a valuable collectors item!


ABOUT THE COMPOSERS

The English composer John Dowland had in his work a distinctive blend of poem, melody and harmony that remains unssurpassed. Aged 17-18 he spend two years in France and discovered there the 'voix de ville', the model for his own ayres combined with an English lyricism.

John Bartlett was a 16th-17th century lutenist and composer. Nothing is known of Bartlett's personal history, except that he was probably a household musician to Lord Hertford.

Robert Johnson was one of King James I's lutenists. He was favoured as a composer of instrumental music but he was also frequently employed to provide vocal music for the productions of the "King's Men", the foremost company of players in London (Songs from the Plays).


WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY

Composer Jef Maes wrote:
"My sincere congratulations for this splendid recording of Dowland's magnificent music ; likewise with respect to the soli for guitar."

Emma Scott from the <Nieuwe Gazet> wrote:
"This recording, I declare hand on heart, is exceptional, and on the Belgian market it's unique! Raphaella's accompaniments are delicate and interwoven with melancholy. A recording without bombastic sentiment but with unspoken yearning."



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