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Daniels: Lute Songs / Charles Daniels, Nigel North

1 CD / ATMA / 2007-09-25

Works: Alfonso Ferrabosco: Come My Celia, Let Us Prove, for voice & lute; Like Hermit poor (Ayres, 1609); So, so, leave off this last lamenting kisse (from Ayres 1609); Thomas Campion: Fire, fire, fire, fir...
Performers: Daniels, Charles; North, Nigel [Lute]

English tenor Charles Daniels' selection of lute songs for this recording is proof that there were many Renaissance composers besides Dowland who could combine words...continue...

Shakespeare's Music / Baird, McFarlane, Urrey, et al

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2000-03-08

Works: William Byrd: My Lord of Oxenford's Mask (From Thomas Morley's "The First Booke of Consort Lessons"); Anonymous, English: Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone, ballad; Kemp's Gigue; Lavolto; Fortune my foe...

This irresistible mid-priced collection provides an eighty-minute overview of some of the remarkable music mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries....continue...