Carolyn Sampson & Matthew Wadsworth
Not just Dowland - Songs for soprano and lute
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall,
£9.99
Complete CD Track Listing
Not just Dowland - Songs for soprano and lute
About this CD
London was as diverse and multi-cultural in 1610 as it is today. On this live recording Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth take you on a rich and colourful journey which embraces not only our own culture, but that of our European counterparts in Italy, France and Belgium, as well as a few surprises along the way.
Matthew Wadsworth's and Carolyn Sampson's eclectic programme draws on Robert Dowland’s A Musicall Banquet and Varietie of Lute Lessons, both published in 1610, although they venture back a few years to the masterpieces of John Dowland and Robert Johnson.
2Sitting beside Wadsworth [for songs by Johnson], and singing as much to him as to us, Sampson established a fireside confidentiality, using a folk-ballad tone with just the faintest hint of vibrato: her warm, open sound was arrestingly expressive.
When Wadsworth brought on the theorbo, and the songs became darker, we were in a different realm. Sampson's ‘In Darkness Let Me Dwell’ began as a sad exhalation, dramatically broadening in plangency before dying back again.
For some rarely performed Monteverdi songs, she reminded us what a fabulous sound she can summon up, while Wadsworth brought out the fruits of his musicological research." The Independent (on the concert)
Performers
- Carolyn Sampson soprano
- Matthew Wadsworth lute & theorbo
Track Listing
Phillip
Rosseter
1. Prelude solo lute 01.30
Robert Johnson
2. Away delights
03.18
3. Oh, let us howl 02.36
4. Care-charming sleep 03.58
Alfonso Ferrabosco
5. Pavan Iv solo lute 03.48
Anon.
6. Galliarda solo lute 02.20
John Dowland
7. Fortune my foe 06.32
Robert Johnson
8. Pavan in
C minor solo lute 06.02
John Dowland
9. Can she excuse my wrongs 02.52
10. In darkness
let me dwell 04.55
Claudio Monteverdi
11. Quel Sguardo Sdegnosetto 02.18
Alessandro
Grandi
12. O quam tu pulchra es 04.02
Alessandro Piccinini
13. Toccata XIII
solo theorbo 03.16
14. Partite Variate Sopra La Folia solo theorbo 05.25
Giulio
Caccini
15. Amarilli mia bella (published 1602) My fair Amaryllis 02.53
Giovanni Kapsberger
16. Toccata arpeggiata solo theorbo 02.54
17. ‘Kapsberger’ solo theorbo
04.31
Tarquinio Merula
18. Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nonna 09.22
19.
announcement 00.06
ENCORE
Robert Johnson
20. Have you seen the bright lily grow? 03.03
Reviews
"Carolyn Sampson's pure soprano cossets the words, savouring their expressive implications, relishing their shifts of rhythm and subtly sighing with bliss, yearning or heartache depending on the circumstances" ****The Daily Telegraph
"Together [Sampson & Wadsworth] weave a superb tapestry of little-known 17th-century vocal music." Album of the Week - The Independent
"The pleasure of her [Sampson's] perfection is enhanced by the diversity of her selection...Short of actually being there, this is live music at its best. Some enchanted evening..." ***** CD of the WeekThe Lebrecht Report
"Matthew Wadsworth really is a quite extraordinary musician, graceful, civilised and intelligent. He has an enormous ability to draw an audience into his own world" Early Music Review
Product Details
- Total time: 76.16
- Cat. Number: WHLIVE0034
- Recorded: 7 December 2008