Works Summary
Performers
Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)- Robin Blaze (Countertenor)
Composers
- Pietro Reggio (1632 - 1685)
- Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
- Matthew Locke (1622 - 1677)
- Robert Johnson (Baroque) (circa 1583 - 1633)
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- Anonymous
- John Danyel (1564 - circa 1625)
- John Blow (1649 - 1708)
- William Lawes (1602 - 1645)
- John Banister (1630 - 1679)
- John Dowland (1562 - 1626)
Remarks:
'English Lute Songs' covers a variety of styles by composers such as Blow, Dowland, Campion, Lawes and Purcell, with works for voice and lute and some for lute alone. It is a disc that aims to look beyond the standard repertoire for countertenor and lute and hopefully introduce listeners to some lesser known pieces which will delight and enthrall. Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny have performed these works together on the concert stage to great acclaim.Notes:
The combining of music and poetry in the courts of seventeenth century England was partly the result of an artistic movement that grew out of a need for entertainment by the wealthy. This style of theatrical art gave birth to the 'ayre', a genre characterized by pairing the voice and the English lute. Often dramatic and melancholy in mood, these lute pieces were presumably the Elizabethan equivalent of today's modern soap operas.Hyperion has done a superior job in packaging thirty such songs built entirely on the perspicuity of the voice and lute. All pieces are performed by Robin Blaze, countertenor, and Elizabeth Kenny, lute, and include a comprehensive range of works by such noted composers as Robert Johnson, John Dowland, and Henry Purcell.
The calming sound of Blaze's high-ranged vocals coupled with the affability of Kenny's masterful lute playing lends itself well to the ears of its listeners. An excerpt from one of composer John Banister's lute pieces says everything of this collection. 'Give me my lute; in thee some ease I find 'Where all is sad and gloomy as my mind.'
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There are currently no reviews, be the first one!Johnson, Robert [Baroque] : Full fathom five
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1611
- Studio/Live: Studio
Johnson, Robert [Baroque] : Where the bee sucks
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 17th Century
- Studio/Live: Studio
Campion, Thomas : Faire, if you expect admiring
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1601
- Studio/Live: Studio
Dowland, John : In darkness let mee dwell
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1610
- Studio/Live: Studio
Dowland, John : Third and Last Booke of Songes :: no 2, Time stands still
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1603
- Studio/Live: Studio
Lawes, William : Why so pale?
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1637
- Studio/Live: Studio
Lawes, William : He that will not love
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: by 1648
- Studio/Live: Studio
Lawes, William : I'm sick of love "To the Sycamore"
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: by 1648
- Studio/Live: Studio
Johnson, Robert [Baroque] : Fantasia
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 17th Century
- Studio/Live: Studio
Lawes, William : Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 17th Century
- Studio/Live: Studio
Dowland, John : Third and Last Booke of Songes :: no 3, Behold a wonder here
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1603
- Studio/Live: Studio
Danyel, John : Songs for the Lute, Viol and Voice :: Rosa
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Vocal
- Written: by 1606
- Studio/Live: Studio
Danyel, John : Songs for the Lute, Viol and Voice :: Can doleful notes
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Vocal
- Written: by 1606
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : Rigadoon for Harpsichord in C major, Z 653
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1687
- Studio/Live: Studio
Locke, Matthew : The delights of the bottle
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Studio/Live: Studio
Reggio, Pietro : Arise, ye subterranean winds
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Studio/Live: Studio
Banister, John : The Tempest :: Come unto these yellow sands
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1675
- Studio/Live: Studio
Banister, John : The Tempest :: Where the bee sucks
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1675
- Studio/Live: Studio
Banister, John : The Tempest :: Dry those eyes
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1675
- Studio/Live: Studio
Banister, John : The Tempest :: Full fathom five
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1675
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love, Z 353
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: by 1688
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : A New Irish Tune for Harpsichord in G major, Z 646 "Lilliburleo"
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : Fairy Queen, Z 629 :: 'Tis nature's voice
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1692
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : Fly, bold rebellion, Z 324 :: Be welcome then, great sir
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1683
- Studio/Live: Studio
Banister, John : Give me my lute
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Vocal
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : Prophetess, Z 627 :: Still I'm wishing
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1690
- Studio/Live: Studio
Blow, John : Lovely Selina
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1689
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : Sefauchi's Farewell for Harpsichord in D minor, Z 656
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1687
- Studio/Live: Studio
Purcell, Henry : By beauteous softness
- Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Studio/Live: Studio
Anonymous : Varietie of Lute-Lessons :: The Last of the Queenes Maskes
- Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (Lute)
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1610
- Studio/Live: Studio
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