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Compact Disc CDA66186

£13.99

Recorded at a public concert in Forde Abbey, Dorset, on 2 June 1985
Recording Engineer
ANTONY HOWELL
Recording Producer
MORTEN WINDING
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producer
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXVI

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Front illustration: Forde Abbey, Dorset

Time Stands Still

Lute songs on the theme of mutability and metamorphosis
by John Dowland and his contemporaries

EMMA KIRKBY soprano
ANTHONY ROOLEY lute

Contents:

    John Dowland
  1. His golden locks Time hath to silver turned [3'09]
    from The First Book of Songs, 1597

    Thomas Campion

  2. Though you are young and I am old [2'11]
    from A Book of Ayres, 1601

    Thomas Campion

  3. Come, cheerful day [2'21]
    from The First Book of Ayres, c1613

    anonymous

  4. Lost is my liberty [2'36]

    John Dowland

  5. It was a time when silly bees could speak [2'25]
    from the Third Book of Songs, 1603

    Thomas Ford

  6. Go, passions, to the cruel fair [3'10]
    from Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, 1607

    John Dowland

  7. Far from triumphing Court [6'13]
    from A Musicall Banquet, 1610

    George Handford

  8. Now each creature [2'00]
    from Ayres, 1609

    John Danyel

  9. Time, cruel Time [3'10]
    from Songs for the Lute, 1606

    John Danyel

  10. He whose desires are still abroad [2'15]
    from Songs for the Lute, 1606

    Alfonso Ferrabosco

  11. Pavan [3'22]

    John Dowland

  12. Flow not so fast, ye fountains [2'38]
    from the Third Book of Songs, 1603

    Philip Rosseter

  13. What then is love but mourning? [1'22]
    from A Book of Ayres, 1603

    John Dowland

  14. Time stands still [4'00]
    from the Third Book of Songs, 1603

    William Lawes

  15. Gather your rosebuds [0'56]
    manuscript

    anonymous

  16. Mignonne allons [2'16]
    from Le Recueil des plus bellet et excellentes chansons en forme de voix de ville, 1576

'A fine recital that adds a few welcome items to the recorded repertory of the lute-song, engineered close to perfection' (Gramophone)

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