Alexander Chance, Toby Carr
Named Gramophone’s One to Watch and winner of the 2022 International Handel Singing Competition, Alexander Chance makes his recording debut on Linn. Drop not, mine eyes is a recital of English lute songs that soaks up the zeitgeist of the past couple of years to create a programme full of melancholic works by Dowland, Campion, Danyel, Purcell and others. If the ever-popular Dowland was readily prone to sadness, as exemplified by the pair I saw my lady weep and Flow, my tears, or indeed In darkness let me dwell, the polymath Thomas Campion favoured a more sober style, as shown in I care not for these ladies. Thomas Ford displays his more profane side here with Fair, sweet, cruel and What then is love. When it comes to melancholy, John Danyel’s Grief, keep within and Drop not, mine eyes are every bit as good as Dowland. The programme closes with Purcell, the other English Orpheus. Toby Carr provides sympathetic accompaniment on lute and theorbo
John Dowland (1562-1626) , Thomas Campion (1567-1620) , Thomas Ford (1580-1628) , John Danyel (1564-1626) , Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) , Robert de Visee (1650-1725) , Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- John Dowland: Can she excuse my wrongs; Präludium; I saw my lady weep; Flow, my tears; Captain Digorie Piper, his Galliard; Mignarda; In darkness let me dwell
+Thomas Campion: I care not for these ladies; The cypress curtain of the night; Never weather-beaten sail
+Thomas Ford: What then is love; Fair, sweet, cruel
+John Danyel: Pavan; Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband; He whose desires are still abroad
+Jean-Baptiste Lully / Robert de Visee: Entree d'Apollon
+Robert de Visee: Prelude
+Henry Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choise; Now that the sun hath veiled his light
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