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| ARTIST: | Anonymous, Thomas Campion, Philip Rosseter, Steven Rickards, Dorothy Linell |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Naxos |
| TYPE: | Chamber Music & Recitals, Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Medieval/Renaissance Vocal, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Sacred Choral Music, Vocal, Vocal Music |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Come Let Us Sound With Melody, Tune Thy Musicke To Thy Hart, Come You Pretty False-Ey'D Wanton, There Is None, O None But You, Sweet Exclude Mee Not, I Care Not For These Ladies, Though You Are Yoong And I Am Olde, Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire!, What Then Is Love But Mourning?, Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee?, Beauty, Since You So Much Desire, What Is It All That Men Possesse?, The Sypres Curten Of The Night, Jacke And Jone They Think No Ill, It Fell On A Sommers Daie, When To Her Lute Corrina Sings, My Sweetest Lesbia, Her Rosie Cheekes, Her Ever Smiling Eyes, Faire, If You Expect Admiring, There Is A Garden In Her Face, Author Of Light, Never Weather-Beaten Saile, Most Sweet And Pleasing Are Thy Wayes, To Musicke Bent Is My Retyred Minded, Thou Joy'St, Fond Boy, Turne All Thy Thoughts To Eyes, Vaile, Love Mine Eyes, Miserere My Maker |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 730099438025 |
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Customer Reviews of Campion: Lute Music
Fine recital of neglected composer I'd agree with the earlier reviewer that this CD is for those who have already tried Dowland. However Dowland has been fortunate in the recording studio and Campion much neglected (this appears to be the only disc dedicated to him currently available) so Naxos deserve our thanks for having brought Rickards and Linell back together for a second disc. What is particularly encouraging is to find a whole disc of songs, not just a few raisins in a cake of viol music which is how Dowland and his contemporaries are normally represented. Not that I've anything against mixed recitals - the collaborations of Fretwork with Red Byrd are beautiful - but it tends to be the same better known songs.
The first recordings of early English music on the Naxos label (I'm thinking of Summerly's earlier recordings of Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons) lacked texts, that has been corrected in later releases, including both this disc (timing 52:52), and the earlier Rickards Dowland recital (8.553381, 1997, timing 74:08). Sound on both discs is more than adequate.
Good Performance but the content?
I make no claims to being knowledable about the intricacies of this music. But if I were giving stars I'd give the performance four or five and the content...um...that's the hard part.
I bought this out of curiosity. Campion's lyrics turn up occasionally in anthologies of poetry and I was curious to hear the songs. I own Rickards and Linell's "Dowland: Flow my tears and other lute songs" and i play it often so I also wanted to know what Dowland's competition sounded like.
Firstly, the performance is of the same high standard as on the other disk. Which is good. Linell plays well and Rickards' voice is fine. The liner notes provide good background information as well as the words to the songs. The only real complaint I could have about the performance is probably related to production: The lute sounds small, thin and distant compared with, say, Bream's lute on "The golden age of English Lute music" or Lindberg's on "The complete solo lute music". This is true of the pair's Dowland recording as well but it may only be a drawback if you're trying to use the performances as a guide to playing the songs yourself. ( I was).
The real drawback to this recording though is the material. Play the Dowland and you're liable to find yourself humming odd snatches of the songs. Play the Campion and you're liable to have difficulty remembering any of the individual tunes. Nor do the lyrics redeem the music. He probably was a "better " lyric writer than Dowland (whatever that means) but music wise Dowland beats him hollow.
If you're studying music history this might be an interesting collection. But if you're just curious and want an introduction to the songs of the period, go for the Dowland first. You're liable to be left feeling like you could listen to more, and then the Campion becomes interesting as a variation. Buy the Campion first and you're liable to wonder why people get enthusiastic about English lute songs. And that would be a pity and a disservice to Linell and Rickards who do such a good job.