Emma Kirkby

Orpheus in England

Jakob Lindberg

Book of Songs, Book 2: Disdain me still, that I may ever love

Book of Songs, Book 3: Lend your ears to my sorrow, good people

Book of Songs, Book 1: Come, heavy sleep

Prelude, P. 98

Varietie of Lute Lessons, II. The Right Honourable Earl of Essex, His Galliard (42a)

Book of Songs, Book 2: A shepherd in a shade

The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires: By a fountain where I lay

Book of Songs, Book 1: Away with these self-loving lads

Lachrimae, P. 15

Tarleton's Resurrection, P. 59

A Pilgrimes Solace: If that a sinner's sighs be angel's food

Varietie of Lute Lessons: X. A Fantasie (1a)

Book of Songs, Book 2: Toss not my soul

Book of Songs, Book 4, "A Pilgrimes Solace": In darkness let me dwell

She loves and she confesses too, Z. 413

The Indian Queen, Z. 630 (arr. for soprano and lute): The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act IV: They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers (arr. for soprano and lute)

Trumpet Tune in C Major, Z. 678 (after Cibell) (arr. J. Lindberg)

Act II: Echo Dance of Furies

Act II: The Groves Dance

Fly swift, ye hours, Z. 369

Bonduca, Z. 574, "The British Heroine": Bonduca, Z. 574, “The British Heroine”: No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom

What a sad fate is mine, Z. 428b

The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid: A New Irish Tune in G Major, Z. 646, "Lilliburlero" (arr. J. Lindberg): The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid: A New Irish Tune in G Major, Z. 646, "Lilliburlero" (arr. J. Lindberg)

The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid : A New Scotch Tune in C Major, Z. 655 (arr. J. Lindberg)

The Old Batchelor, Z. 607: Hornpipe in E Minor (arr. J. Lindberg)

The Second Part of Musick's Hand-maid: A New Ground in E Minor, Z. T682 (arr. J. Lindberg)

From silent shades, and the Elysian groves, Z. 370, "Bess of Bedlam"

Oedipus, King of Thebes, Z. 583: Music for a while

‘A pleasing melancholy’ is how Robert Burton described the feeling that certain music can give rise to, in his The Anatomy of Melancholy from 1621. Some 20 years earlier John Dowland, melancholic par excellence, had expressed a similar idea in the dedication of his Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: ‘pleasant are the tears which music weeps’. During this period in England, melancholia had become fashionable, especially in cultural and literary circles, and spawned countless poems, paintings and songs. When Dowland’s lute song Flow My Tears was published in 1600, the instrumental Lachrimae Pavan on which it was based had been in circulation for several years and was the composer’s ‘number one hit’ both in England and on the continent – and four years after the song, he returned to the music and varied it in the ‘seven tears’ for viol consort and lute. Colleagues of Dowland such as Robert Jones and John Danyel explored similar moods and emotions in their own songs, sometimes – as in Danyel’s Eyes look no more – making clear allusions to Dowland’s famous pavan. The Chelys Consort of Viols released their first disc in 2015 to critical acclaim. For the present recording they are joined by lutenist James Akers, and Emma Kirkby, the English soprano who has long been a leading figure in the field of early music.

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