DAVIDSON,GRACE; DAVID MILLER - First Booke Of Songes Or Ayres - Import CD

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DAVIDSON,GRACE; DAVID MILLER

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John Dowland's lute songs sung by Grace Davidson! Grace Davidson, one of Britain's leading old-time sopranos, has performed with such masters of old-time music as John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McLeish, Philip Herreweghe, Harry Christophers, and Peter Phillips. This is her second solo recording for SignumClassics, following Handel & Vivaldi (SIGCD 537) with the Ancient Chamber Orchestra (AAM). This is a collection of songs by John Dowland sung with lute, theorbo, and early guitarist David Miller, who has played bass in many old music ensembles and has participated in recordings of various English songs & lute songs, including Dowland. Officially titled "Songs or Airs in Four Voices with Tablature for the Lute, Volume I," this is the first volume of Dowland's song cycle published in 1597. It contains many masterpieces, ranging from familiar pieces sung to the rhythm of dances, to Dowland's characteristic melancholy, and it has enhanced Dowland's reputation as a composer of songs, and has fascinated musicians and audiences around the world for 400 years since then. Tokyo M-Plus