Dowland - A Dream
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Special offer. Songs of Passion
RecommendedLea Desandre (mezzo), Thomas Dunford (lute, theorbo), with Alex Rosen (bass-baritone), Jess Dandy (contralto), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone)
Jupiter
Across two discs, the performers shed any hint of 'whitewashed' English restraint, fathoming Dowland's twilight world and Purcell's exuberant theatricality. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Zuljan’s eclectic background as a guitarist, oud player and lutenist, combined with musical tastes that range from medieval to jazz, makes him highly responsive to the varied hues of Dowland’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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The prospect of a Nigel North set is something to drool over, and this first installment doesn't disappoint. Pre-eminently the lutenist's lutenist, North is steeped in the music - and technically... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, Instrumental Choice
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All We Get is Life
Jean-Christophe Groffe, Ziv Braha, thélème, Leonardo Borlotto, Alexandra Polin, Liz Rumsey, Ryosuke Sakamoto, Nikki Buzzi, Sting
their imaginative and perceptive new album, All we get is life, explores the works’ shared sense of intimacy and contained emotional expression. The results are enjoyably surprising and, while... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Wadsworth's playing is sensitive and polished throughout, and he draws sumptuous velvet sounds from both the 10-course lute and the 14-course theorbo...Wadsworth's renditions of The Miller's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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Throughout the SACD Lindberg proves (as if he needed to!) that he is a sympathetic and perceptive interpreter of the lute music of the Renaissance. This is an outstanding, treasure of an album.... —
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Zuljan's playing is delicate and nuanced, articulates the inner voices clearly, and in the improvisations (as with his accompaniment to Byron's poem 'Darkness' spoken by Brunet), endlessly responsive. —
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Burst Forth, My Tears: The Music of John Dowland
Nigel North (lute), Dorothy Linell (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute), Catherine King (mezzo-soprano)
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