Danyel: The Complete Songs & Lute Music

An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life by Harmen Steenwyck (1612-after 1655)
Reproduced by permission of The Trustees, The National Gallery, London

CDA66714

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Recording details: March 1994
Kimpton Parish Church, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: March 1995
Total duration: 78 minutes 41 seconds

'Music of the very highest quality ... if you only have one lute-song disc in your collection it should be this one' (Early Music Review)

'Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA)

'This recording will transport you back to rural England at the turn of the 17th century … an entertaining selection of vocal solo and quartet music' (Gramophone)

John Danyel (1564-1626)

The Complete Songs & Lute Music

Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

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Like as the lute delights [4'48]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Time, cruel Time [3'46] English
Libby Crabtree (soprano), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Pavan in C major [4'05]
David Miller (lute)

What delight can they enjoy [0'55]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), Nigel Short (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor)

Mrs M E her funeral tears for the death of her husband

Grief keep within [2'46]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Drop not, mine eyes [2'50]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Have all our passions? [3'06]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Why canst thou not? [0'55]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Stay, cruel, stay! [2'32]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), David Miller (lute)

The Passymeasures Galliard [4'15]
David Miller (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)

Coy Daphne fled [1'59]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Let not Chloris think [2'07]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Eyes, look no more [4'15] English
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Rosa [5'32]
David Miller (lute)

Thou pretty bird, how do I see [1'28] English
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

A Fancy [0'56]
David Miller (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute)

Dost thou withdraw thy grace? [1'20]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), David Miller (lute)

He whose desires are still abroad [1'54]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

If I could shut the gate [3'45]
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

I die whenas I do not see [2'00] English
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Monsieur's Almain [6'44]
David Miller (lute)

Can doleful notes?

Can doleful notes? [2'26] English
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

No, let chromatic tunes [3'41] English
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Uncertain turns of thought [2'18] English
Nigel Short (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Now the earth, the skies, the air [3'27]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), Nigel Short (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Adrian Peacock (bass), David Miller (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute), Mark Caudle (viol)

Mistress Anne Grene her Leaves be Green [4'51]
David Miller (lute)

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