Drop Not, Mine Eyes
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JOHN DOWLAND / THOMAS CAMPION / JOHN DANYEL / THOMAS FORD / HENRY PURCELL / etc
Drop Not, Mine Eyes
Alexander Chance (counter-tenor), Toby Carr (lute)
[ Linn / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 April 2023
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
"Chance's tone is pellucid; notes fall round and clear as water drops...a recording in which Chance stakes serious claim to the title of his generation's most exciting British countertenor." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2023
"With his pure, silky timbre and impeccable vocal line, Chance captures the sensual, melancholic and tender character of these songs quite perfectly." Five Stars. Pizzicato
Tracks:
Campion, Thomas
I care not for these Ladies
Never weather-beaten sail
The cypress curtain of the night
Danyel, John
He whose desires are still abroad
Mrs M E her funeral tears for the death of her husband
Pavan
Dowland, John
Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard, P19
First Booke of Songes or Ayres
» no.5 Can she excuse my wrongs?
Flow my teares
In darkness let me dwell
I saw my Ladye weepe
Mignarda, P34
Praeludium
Ford, Thomas
Faire, sweet, cruell
What then is love
Purcell, Henry
An Evening Hymn, Z193 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light'
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
Visee, Robert de
Entree d'Apollon (Lully)
Prelude
