DOWLAND: LUTE SONGS / Britten: NOCTURNAL

Mark Padmore (tenor) & Elizabeth Kenny (lute), guitar solo by Craig Ogden

Britten:
 Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70

Dowland:
 Away with these self-loving lads
 Captain Digorie Pipers Galliard
 Come again, sweet love doth now invite
 Come away, come, sweet love
 Come heavy sleep
 Fantasia No. 7 from A Varietie of Lute Lessons
 Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)
 I must complain
 If my complaints could passions move
 In darkness let me dwell
 Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
 Now, O now, I needs must part
 Say love if ever thou didst find
 Sleep, wayward thoughts
 Sorrow, stay
 To ask for all thy love
 Unquiet thoughts
 What if I never speed?

"A simply brilliant disc. I can’t praise it enough. A bronze Liz Kenny should be on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, in my opinion"
Early Music Today

Mark Padmore again shows why he is one of today's finest tenors. The quicker songs, like "Away with these self-loving lads", gain in clarity from a semi-declamatory approach, while the slower are eerily viol-like and extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy … [Mark Padmore] joy in conveying the emotional core of each situation."
Gramophone Magazine - Janauary 2008

"Padmore provides context by singing Dowland's original song before Craig Ogden steals in, alert to the Nocturnal's every nuance, and with a palette of colours both caressing and disquieting. Completing the frame, 'Flow my Tears' is beautifully inflected, though finer still is 'In Darkness let me Dwell' where in the final bars Padmore's enrapt engagement seems to conjure up the very chill of death."
BBC Music Magazine - February 2008 ****