Dowland: Whose Heavenly Touch

Contents The Second Book of Songes: No. 2, Flow My Tears The Second Book of Songes: No. 11, Come Away, Come Sweet Love The Second Book of Songes: No. 10, O Sweet woods, the Delight of Solitariness The Second Book of Songes: No. 1, I Saw My Lady Weep The First Booke of Songes: No. 5, Can She Excuse My Wrongs The First Booke of Songes: No. 14, All ye, whom Love or Fortune Mignarda The Second Book of Songes: No. 12, Fine Knacks for Ladies The First Booke of Songes: No. 6, Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part The First Booke of Songes: No. 20, Come, Heavy Sleep In Darkness Let Me Dwell The First Booke of Songes: No. 4, The First Booke of Songes The First Booke of Songes: No. 15, Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me The First Booke of Songes: No. 9, Go crystal tears The First Booke of Songes: No. 17, Come Again The Second Book of Songes: No. 3, Sorrow, Sorrow, Stay, lend True Repentant Tears

This recording devoted to Dowland seems to open a door onto a secret garden, one tended and cultivated by two artists already well known for opera and song recitals that distill the chamber music principle into its most intimate essence of expressive sound: soprano Mariana Flores, and lutenist Hopkinson Smith. Here they give us a Dowland programme straight from the heart, drawing on five of the composer’s volumes of ‘Songs or Ayres’ printed in London between 1597 and 1612, laying bare Dowland’s ecstatic and tortured soul as it oscillates between all the different states of melancholy love.