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The Lute Songs of John Dowland


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Drew Ivarson, tenor and Daniel Keene, lute full profile / Lute & Voice / 2 musicians

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Full program notes

The Poore Astronomers, tenor Drew Ivarson and lutenist Daniel Keene, present a program in celebration of the life and music of John Dowland (1563-1626) as it will be the English composer/lutenist’s 400th anniversary of his death. All music will be performed on period instruments and sung in reconstructed pronounciation! The program will include an array of lute songs from Dowland’s four books of songs as well as a handful of solos for the lute.

Program:

O sweet woods, the delight of solitarienesse
If my complaints could passions move
Can she excuse my wrongs
What if I never speede
Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my hart
The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Essex, his Galliard
Flow my teares

INTERVAL

Awake sweet love thou art returnd
Cleare or cloudie sweet as April showring
The lowest trees have tops
It was a time when silly bees could speake
The Most Sacred Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard
Say love if ever thou didst finde


Historical context

Renaissance lute songs of English lutenist/composer John Dowland (1562-1626).


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