Notes and Editorial Reviews
The final volume of Nigel North's John Dowland lute music cycle offers some of this singular composer's more familiar works such as Walsingham, Go from my window, and Lord Willoughby's welcome home. It also includes North's own editions of Dowland songs arranged for solo lute. In general, North favors slower tempos than Paul O'Dette (Harmonia Mundi) and is not averse to savoring a felicitous cadence or melodic turn of phrase, as you hear in the little Galliard P. 35. While O'Dette's quicker and suppler readings of the Queen Elizabeth and Sir John Souch Galliards better emphasize the music's dance origins and rich contrapuntal ideas, North sometimes surpasses O'Dette so far as coloristic resources. A good example of this is Awake, sweet
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love, where North applies varied vibratos to the melodic line. The warm ambience and detailed presence of Naxos' engineering makes an immediate and lasting impact. If you already own Volumes 1 through 3, chances are you've already bought this release. If not, then why not?
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
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Works on This Recording
1.
Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard, P 41 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
2.
Queenes Galliard, P 97 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
3.
Dowland's First Galliard by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
4.
John Dowland's Galliard, P 21 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
5.
Complaint, P 63 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
6.
Frogg Galliard, P 23A by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
7.
Aloe, P 68 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
8.
A Galliarde on "Walsingham", P 31 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
9.
Wallsingham, P 67 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
10.
Coranto for Lute, P 100 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
11.
Galliard, P 27 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
12.
Come away, P 60 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Notes: Arranger: Nigel North.
13.
Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: Sir John Souch his Galiard by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: 1604; England
14.
Go from my window, P 64 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
15.
Awake sweet love, P 92 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
16.
What if a day, P 79 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
17.
Galliard, P 35 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
18.
My Lord Willobes Wellcome Home, P 66 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
19.
Can she excuse, P 42 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1599; England
20.
Robin, P 70 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
21.
Fortune, P 62 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
22.
Loth to departe, P 69 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
23.
First Galliard, P 20 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
24.
King of Denmark, his Galliard, P 40 by John Dowland
Performer:
Nigel North (Lute)
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Sound Samples
The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard, P. 41
The Queen's Galliard, P. 97
Galliard in G minor, P. 22, "Dowland's First Galliard"
Galliard in G minor, P. 21, "John Dowland's Galliard"
Complaint, P. 63, "Fortune my foe"
Galliard in G minor, P. 31, "Galliard on Walsingham"
Galliard in F minor, P. 27
Come away, P. 60 (arr. of Come again, Sweet love doth now invite, new version by N. North)
Sir John Souch's Galliard, P. 26
Galliard in D major, P. 24, "Awake sweet love, thou art returned"
Galliard in D major, P. 24, "Awake sweet love, thou art returned" (new version by N. North)
Galliard in C minor, P. 35
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, P. 66
Dowland's Galliard, P. 20
The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, His Galliard, P. 40
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