John Dowland: Songs Ayres & Dances & Various - John Dowland: Songs, Ayres & Dances Various Artists CD

Born in 1626, John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer, often regarded as one of the greatest masters of the lute song. His melancholic music, filled with deep emotional expression, perfectly captures the mood of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. His famous works include the Bookes of Songes or Ayres and Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, featuring pieces like "Flow my tears" and "Come heavy sleep". Dowland's compositions are characterized by their exquisite balance between poignant vocal melodies and intricate lute accompaniments, as well as his virtuosic solo lute pieces, which are still staples in the repertoire today.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. The First Booke of Songes: IX. Go Crystall Teares
2. The First Booke of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
3. The First Booke of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turn'd
4. The First Booke of Songes: VI. Now, O Now
5. The Second Booke of Songes: XVII. a Shepherd in a Shade Is Plaining Made
6. The Third Booke of Songs: IX. What If I Never Speede
7. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: The Lamentation of a Sinner
8. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: Domine Ne in Furore
9. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: Miserere Mei Deus
10. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: The Humble Sute of a Sinner
11. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: The Complaint of a Sinner
12. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: de Profundis
13. Lamentatio Henrici Noel: Domine Exaudi
14. A Pilgrimes Solace: Disdaine Me Still
15. A Pilgrimes Solace: Tell Me True Love
16. A Pilgrimes Solace: Thou Mighty God (The First Part)
17. A Pilgrimes Solace: When Davids Life By Saul (The Second Part)
18. A Pilgrimes Solace: When the Poore Criple (The Third Part)
19. A Pilgrimes Solace: Welcome Black Night
20. A Pilgrimes Solace: Cease These False Sports
21. A Shepherd in a Shade
22. Where Sin Sore Wounding
23. The Third Booke of Songes: No. 7 Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
24. The Second Book of Songes: No. 12 Fine Knacks for Ladies
25. The Firste Booke of Songes: No. 17, Come Again Sweet Love
26. The Firste Booke of Songes: No. 17, Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
27. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 9, Goe Nightly Cares, the Enemy to Rest
28. La Mia Barbara, Pavan, P. 95
29. The Firste Booke of Songes: No. 4, If My Complaints Could Passions Move
30. The Firste Booke of Songes: No. 19, Awake, Sweet Love
31. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 10, from Silent Night, True Register of Moanes
32. The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, His Galliard, P. 42, "Can She Excuse"
33. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 19, Mr. Bucton's Galliard
34. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 17, Mr. Thomas Collier His Galliard
35. Ensemble a Musicall Banquet: X. in Darkness Let Me Dwell
36. The Second Book of Songes: No. 2, Flow My Tears
37. The Frog Galliard, P. 23
38. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 18, Captain Digorie Piper His Galliard
39. The Firste Booke of Songes: No. 11, Come Away, Come Sweet Love
40. Lord Strang's March, P. 65 (Arr. By Jacob Heringman)
41. The Second Book of Songes: No. 12, Fine Knacks for Ladies (Arr. Heringman)
42. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 20, Mistress Nichols Almand (Arr. Heringman)
43. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 11, Lasso Vita Mia Mi Fa Morire
44. The Second Book of Songes: No. 3, Sorrow, Sorrow, Stay, Lend True Repentant Tears
45. Fantasia in G Major, P. 1
46. The Third Booke of Songes: No. 2, Time Stands Still
47. Psalm C. "Be Thou, O God, Exalted High"
48. Lady Laiton's Almain, P. 48
49. Second Book of Songs: No. 22, Humor Say What Makst Thou Heere
50. The Most Sacred Queene Elizabeth Her Galliard, P. 41
51. Third Book of Ayres: No. 7, Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
52. Galliard, P. 24 "Awake, Sweet Love"
53. First Book of Songs: No. 7, Come Away, Come Sweet Love
54. First Book of Songs: No. 13, Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
55. First Book of Songs: No. 20, Come, Heavy Sleep
56. First Book of Songs: No. 4, If My Complaints Could Passions Move
57. Pavan a 4
58. First Book of Songs: No. 5, Can She Excuse My Wrongs
59. Lady, If You So Spite Me
60. First Book of Songs: No. 17, Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
61. First Book of Songs: No. 9, Go, Crystal Tears
62. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 7, Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
63. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 13, If That a Sinner's Sighs
64. Third Book of Songs: No. 15, Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
65. Lachrimae: No. 21, Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
66. First Book of Songs: No. 15, with You, Unkind, Thus Reave Me
67. Tarletone's Riserrectione, P. 59
68. Far from Triumphing Court
69. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 11, Lasso Vita Mia
70. The Frog Galliard, P. 23
71. First Book of Songs: No. 6, Now O Now I Needs Must Part
72. Third Book of Songs: No. 14, Farewell Unkind, Farewell
73. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: Awake, Sweet Love (The First Booke of Songes)
74. Can She Excuse My Wrongs? (The First Booke of Songes or Ayres)
75. All Ye Whom Love or Fortune
76. The First Booke of Songs or Ayres: Dear, If You Change
77. Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
78. Mister Dowland's Midnight (Orpharion)
79. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Sorrow, Stay!
80. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Die Not Before Thy Day
81. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Mourn! Mourn!
82. Woeful Heart (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
83. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
84. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: Behold a Wonder Here
85. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: The Lowest Trees
86. Me, Me and None But Me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires)
87. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: Farewell, Too Fair
88. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: Earl of Derby His Galliard
89. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: Mistress Winter's Jump
90. A Pilgrim's Solace: Stay, Time
91. A Pilgrim's Solace: Shall I Strive
92. A Pilgrimes Solace: Thou Mighty God
93. Fine Knacks for Ladies
94. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
95. Flow My Tears
96. Sorrow, Sorrow Stay
97. Sweete Stay a While, Why Will You? from a Pilgrimes Solace
98. Clear or Cloudy
99. I Saw My Lady Weepe from the Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
100. Come Away, Come Sweet Loue from the First Book of Songs or Ayres
101. Semper Dowland Semper Dolens from Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
102. I Must Complain
103. Charles Daniels/Flow, My Tears (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
104. Charles Daniels/Shall I Sue? (The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres)
105. All Ye Whom Love or Fortune
106. What Poor Stronomers Are They
107. The Earle of Essex Galiard from Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
108. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
109. Flow Not So Fast Ye Fountains
110. Charles Daniels/Me, Me and None But Me (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires)
111. Come Heauy Sleepe from the First Book of Songs or Ayres
112. A Fantasia P 1
113. Thou Mighty God from a Pilgrimes Solace
114. When David's Life
115. When the Poor Cripple
116. Second Book of Songs: No. 2, Flow My Tears
117. A Musicall Banquet: No. 3, in Darkness Let Me Dwell
118. The Firste Booke of Songes: No. 17, Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
119. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: No. 11, Come Away, Come Sweet Love
120. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: No. 20, Come Heavy Sleep
121. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: No. 15, Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me?
122. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: No. 4, If My Complaints Could Passions Move
123. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: No. 3, My Thoughts Are Winged with Hopes
124. The First Booke of Songes or Ayres: No. 19, Awake Sweet Love
125. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 3, Sorrow, Stay
126. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 12, Fine Knacks for Ladies
127. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 2, Flow My Tears
128. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 19, Shall I Sue
129. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 1, I Saw My Lady Weep
130. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 6, When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
131. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 7, Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
132. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 16, Fie on This Feigning
133. The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres: No. 15, Weep You No More Sad Fountains
134. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 4, Love Those Beams
135. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 2, Sweet Stay Awhile
136. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 3, to Ask for All Thy Love
137. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 6, Were Every Thought An Eye
138. A Pilgrimes Solace: No. 5, Shall I Strive with Words