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Track(s) taken from CDA66003

Come away, come sweet love

composer
1597; The First Booke of Songs or Ayres
author of text

The Camerata of London
Recording details: August 1980
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Robert Burnett
Engineered by Adam Skeaping
Release date: January 1988
Total duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Dunford (lute)
Grace Davidson (soprano), David Miller (lute)

Reviews

‘Thoroughly agreeable as well as vastly interesting’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘Of immense value and interest … a full recommendation’ (The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music)

‘First-rate’ (Hi-Fi for Pleasure)
Come away, come sweet love is a song of passionate entreaty, and the erotic temperature is high; the tempo is restless, and breathless—literally, there are no rests in the voice part—and the successive changes in rhythm heighten the effect of panting desire. The imagery seems to come in part from Propertius (1.2) praising his naked mistress.

from notes by Christopher Goodwin © 2018

Other albums featuring this work

Dowland: First Booke of Songs or Ayres
Studio Master: SIGCD553Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
Dowland: The Art of Melancholy
Studio Master: CDA68007Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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