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Product Identifiers

Record LabelDecca, Dca

UPC0028948018031

eBay Product ID (ePID)14046064644

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2014

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistConsort of Musicke

Release TitleEloq: Danyel-Lute Songs 1606

Dimensions

Item Height0.39 in

Item Weight0.21 lb

Item Length5.55 in

Item Width4.96 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks20

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Coy Daphne Fled 1.2 Thou Pretty Bird, How Do I See 1.3 He Whose Desires Are Still Abroad 1.4 Like As the Lute Delights 1.5 Dost Thou Withdraw Thy Grace? 1.6 Why Canst Thou Not? 1.7 Stay, Cruel, Stay! 1.8 Time, Cruel Time 1.9 Griefe Keepe Within 1.10 Drop Not Mine Eies 1.11 Have All Our Passions 1.12 Let Not Cloris Think 1.13 Can Doleful Notes? 1.14 No, Let Chromatic Tunes 1.15 Uncertain Certain Turns 1.16 Eyes, Look No More 1.17 If I Could Shut the Gate 1.18 I Die Whenas I Do Not See 1.19 What Delight Can They Enjoy 1.20 Now the Earth, the Skies, the Air

NotesAnthony Rooley writes: 'Even in 1926, when Peter Warlock published his brief essay on the English Lute Songs, John Danyel was singled out as being perhaps the finest lute-song composer (John Dowland not excepted) by perceptive Warlock. Nobody believed him then, and not much has changed now - but I agree with Warlock. John Danyel composed some of the finest songs in the English language, but he has left US too little for him to be judged a 'great master'! Just one slim volume of songs and a few exceedingly difficult lute solos in manuscript. 'After I had completed the complete Dowland recordings in 1976/77, I was eager to be sure Danyel was made available too. I had discovered that his one book was designed not so much as a "song-cycle", but as a "song-story", carefully structured and sequenced. The craftsmanship is obvious from the start, but the extraordinary level of artistry in song achieved by Danyel is most apparent in the two "song-cycles" within the larger story: "Grief keep within" and "Can doleful notes?". As Warlock observed, there is simply nothing to compare with these two works, in the entire Lute Song output. Danyel's ability to create a large-scale architecture, both musically and emotionally, with the simplest of means is remarkable. He and Dowland were good friends; there was no enmity between them - only respect. I hope this reissue will find new Danyel converts!' This important recording receives it's first international CD issue, which includes a new introductory note by Anthony Rooley, the original liner notes and full song texts.