CDH88011 - Disc 1 Track 20 - Now, oh now I needs must part - Hyperion Records

Now, oh now I needs must part

composer

1597; A Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres; tune from The Frogs Galliard

author of text

Recordings

Dowland & Campion: It fell on a summer's day
Ian Partridge (tenor), Jakob Lindberg (lute)

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Dowland: Awake, sweet love
James Bowman (countertenor), David Miller (lute), The King's Consort

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Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten: Nocturnal
Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Craig Ogden (guitar)

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CDA67648

English Ayres & Duets
The Camerata of London

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Grainger: Rambles and Reflections
Piers Lane (piano)

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Details

The Camerata of London

Track 10 on CDA66003 [2'45] Archive Service Only Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Track 23 on CDA67648 [6'12] Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

James Bowman (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Track 16 on CDH55241 [5'16] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

Piers Lane (piano)

Track 2 on CDH55454 [4'28] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Schott & Co Ltd

Ian Partridge (tenor), Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Track 20 on CDH88011 [4'36] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Archive Service Only Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

Now, oh now I needs must part

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Sometimes there is a tension between words and music that disrupts the ‘perfect balance’ for which lute-song composers are famous. This must have been deliberate. Now, O now, I needs must part is a good example. Few at the time, and certainly no one now, could say for certain whether there was any love involved in the duc d’Alençon’s unsuccessful suit of Elizabeth I. The Frog Galliard was associated with d’Alençon’s departure, and Now, O now put words to the tune. Elizabeth’s letters show that he wasn’t entirely convinced about her age. She disliked his pockmarked appearance; and they both felt aggrieved that the blandishments of love hadn’t produced enough hard cash to cement a marriage settlement. The jaunty triple metre may be intended to parody the supposed lovers’ sense of their own tragic misfortune or to reflect a courtship that had become something of a public farce, but the words and the nostalgia of the setting are unexpectedly moving.

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Details for CDH88011 track 20

Artists

Ian Partridge (tenor)

Jakob Lindberg (lute)

ISRC

GB-AJY-84-09520

Duration

4'36

Recording date

29 June 1983

Recording venue

St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Mark Brown

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Dowland & Campion: It fell on a summer's day (CDH88011)
Disc 1 Track 20
Release date: August 1989
Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Archive Service Only