O Mistress Mine - Lute songs and solos
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Composer or Director: Gregorio Huet, Thomas Campion, Anonymous, John Dowland, Philip Rosseter, Thomas Morley, Antony Holborne
Label: Dorian
Magazine Review Date: 10/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 73
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DOR90136
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Mall Symes |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Cobbler |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (21) Ayres, Movement: I care not for these ladies |
Thomas Campion, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute Thomas Campion, Composer |
| Third Booke of Ayres, Movement: Shall I come sweet love to thee? |
Thomas Campion, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute Thomas Campion, Composer |
| Fourth Booke of Ayres, Movement: Beauty is but a painted hell |
Thomas Campion, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute Thomas Campion, Composer |
| Go from my window |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| Pegaramsey |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| Fantasia No. 3 |
Antony Holborne, Composer
Antony Holborne, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| If she forsake me |
Philip Rosseter, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Philip Rosseter, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| Lute solo (without title) |
Antony Holborne, Composer
Antony Holborne, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| No grave for woe |
Philip Rosseter, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Philip Rosseter, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| Heigh Ho Holiday |
Antony Holborne, Composer
Antony Holborne, Composer Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake (= The Earl of Essex Galliard) |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Go Cristall teares |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come away, come sweet loue |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Awake sweet loue thou art returnd |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Come heauy sleepe |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: I saw my Lady weepe |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Shall I sue, shall I seeke for grace |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Cleare or Cloudie sweet as 'April' showring |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Say loue if euer thou didst finde |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Weepe you no more sad fountaines |
John Dowland, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor John Dowland, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| Fantasia Graegorii |
Gregorio Huet, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Gregorio Huet, Composer Ronn McFarlane, Lute |
| (The First Booke of) Ayres or Little Short Songs, Movement: Misteresse mine, well may you fare |
Thomas Morley, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute Thomas Morley, Composer |
| (The First Booke of) Ayres or Little Short Songs, Movement: Thirsis and Milla |
Thomas Morley, Composer
Frederick Urrey, Tenor Ronn McFarlane, Lute Thomas Morley, Composer |
Author:
One quite unthinkingly assumes the English lute song to be the preserve of English singers, so closely associated is it with particular traditions of pronunciation and articulation. It is a style widely admired and succesfully imitated, to judge by the polished performance of the American tenor Frederick Urrey. His 'English' is—dare I say—almost perfect, with only the very occasional hard 'r' (''your'') and flattened 'o' (''so'') giving him away. His voice, especially in the upper range, has the quality of an ex-choirboy, clear and unfettered by vibrato, which he uses only to ornament.
Urrey, sings 18 lute songs from the late sixteenth century by John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Philip Rosseter and Thomas Morley—the greatest in number and quality being those of Dowland, with their great arching melancholic melodies. To these—especiallyCome heavy sleepe, Go cristall teares and, best of all, I saw my lady weepe—Urrey brings superb breath control which he applies with an appropriately rarefied mixture of delicacy and drama. There is vigour to be found, too, in Say love if ever thou didst finde, with its rhetorical gestures, but perhaps rather too much gruffness in Beauty, since you so much desire. There are exquisitely fine moments: the simple upward sequences beginning ''The earth, the sea'' in Rosseter's No grave for woe and ''But a little higher'' in Campion's Beauty, since you so much desire; and especially the caesura on ''and blush'd'' in Morley's Thirsis and Milla.
Urrey is joined in these songs by the sensitive and accomplished American lutenist Ronn McFarlane (also the accompanist of the admired baroque specialist, the soprano Julianne Baird) who also contributes eight short but characterful lute solos and had a hand in the production of the disc.'
Urrey, sings 18 lute songs from the late sixteenth century by John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Philip Rosseter and Thomas Morley—the greatest in number and quality being those of Dowland, with their great arching melancholic melodies. To these—especially
Urrey is joined in these songs by the sensitive and accomplished American lutenist Ronn McFarlane (also the accompanist of the admired baroque specialist, the soprano Julianne Baird) who also contributes eight short but characterful lute solos and had a hand in the production of the disc.'
O Mistress Mine - Lute songs and solos
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