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Track(s) taken from CDH88011

Awake, sweet love, thou art returned

composer
1597; The First Booke of Songs or Ayres
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: 2 minutes 25 seconds

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

Other recordings available for download

James Bowman (countertenor), David Miller (lute)
Grace Davidson (soprano), David Miller (lute)
Awake, sweet love is one last galliard song, with a melody as lovely as Dowland ever wrote. The words seem convoluted; the person singing seems to change during the song; this is part of the Renaissance genre of the dialogue between the lover and Love; the word ‘returned’ in the first line has the sense of requited or reciprocated.

from notes by Christopher Goodwin © 2018

Other albums featuring this work

Dowland: Awake, sweet love
CDH55241Download only
Dowland: First Booke of Songs or Ayres
Studio Master: SIGCD553Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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