Greensleeves: A Collection of English Lute Songs

Greensleeves: A Collection of English Lute Songs

Greensleeves: A Collection of English Lute Songs
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Composer: Thomas Morley
Composer: Thomas Campion
Composer: English Anonymous
Composer: Alfonso [2] Ferrabosco
Composer: Philip Rosseter
Composer: Antony Holborne
Composer: John Dowland
Composer: Scottish Traditional
Composer: English Traditional
Composer: Michael Cavendish
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Nicholas Lanier
Performer: Julianne Baird
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-08-31
Music Label: Dorian Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. It Was A Lover And His Lass
  2. Author Of Light
  3. Lute Solo: Watkin's Ale
  4. So Beauty On The Waters Stood
  5. When Laura Smiles
  6. Lute Solo: Galliard
  7. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
  8. Lute Solo: Bonny Sweet Boy
  9. Greensleeves
  10. Wand' ring In This Place
  11. Lute Solo: Packington's Pound
  12. Shall I Come Sweet Love To Thee?
  13. Sorrow Stay
  14. Sweet Youth Go Bruise Thy Pillow
  15. Lute Solo: Kemp's Jig
  16. It Fell On A Summer's Day
  17. Come Again
  18. Lute Solo: Wilson's Wild
  19. Awau With These Self Loving Lads
  20. Mark How The Blushful Morn
  21. Never Weather-Beaten Sail
  22. Lute Solo: The Cradle Pavan
  23. If Thou Longst So Much To Learn
  24. Lute Solo: Robinson's May
  25. TIme Stands Still

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Music Review: Graceful music
Rating: 5 Stars

The lute is a string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep, round back. In many ways, it is related to later similar instructments such as the guitar and banjo. It descends from a Middle Eastern instrument similar to the oud. The lute was one of the major musical instruments of the Middle Ages, and much music was composed for the lute, both as a stand-alone instrument as well as an accompaniment for singers.

This disc has some samples of both. Some songs are anonymous compositions, often derivative of much older folk tunes. Others are original compositions whose composers are known by name. Among these names are John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Michael Cavendish, Thomas Campion, Nicholas Lanier, and Anthony Holborne, all of the 1500s/1600s. The music here involves both the 8-course lute and the 10-course lute (during the later Baroque time, lutes could have as many as 28 strings!).

The lute was eventually displaced by keyboard and other instruments, so in many ways its life is that of the music of the past. However, with recordings such as these, the lute lives again in vibrant form. Ronn McFarlane learned to play on a cheap steel-string guitar, but continued to study in a rather eclectic fashion, eventually studying at the Shenandoah Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory prior to settling upon the lute as his primary instrument. In this recording, he is paired with Julianne Baird, a soprano with significant recording experience.

McFarlane and Baird emphasise the simplicity and lightness of the songs here; while some lute music and some folk tunes can be very elaborately arranged, here the performers strive for a more direct elegance. The particular period emphasised is Elizabethean; McFarlane and Baird sound as if they have come directly from the Queen's court directly.

This is a beautiful recording.
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