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Track(s) taken from CDH88011

If my complaints could passions move

composer
1597; The First Booke of Songs or Ayres; this version from MS439, Christ Church Oxford
author of text

Ian Partridge (tenor), Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Recording details: June 1983
St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: August 1989
Total duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds

Cover artwork: Ideal spring scenery (Ideale Frühlingslandschaft). Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)
Reproduced by courtesy of Schack-Galerie, Munich
 

Other recordings available for download

Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Grace Davidson (soprano), David Miller (lute)
If my complaints could passions move, is another song on a galliard—this time named after a pirate, Captain Digory Piper, who died in 1590, so like some of the other galliard songs, may have been an early work. The symmetrical rhetoric of the lyrics is matched by answering phrases in the music, but lovely touches include the passionate rising opening figure, the modulation from G minor to B flat major in the second strain where the singer addresses his lover directly, and the bass line dropping out at the opening of the third strain to give a sense of suspense.

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: Lute Songs; Britten: Nocturnal
CDA67648
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