Songs of Passion
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JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL
Songs of Passion
Lea Desandre (mezzo) Thomas Dunford (lute), with with Alex Rosen (bass-baritone), Jess Dandy (contralto), Laurence Kilsby (tenor)
[ Erato / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 September 2025
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With Songs of Passion, a collection of vocal and instrumental music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell - English composers born nearly a century apart - mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, lutenist Thomas Dunford and Ensemble Jupiter have created a companion to their previous Erato albums, Eternal Heaven, Idylle and Amazone. Making guest appearances on Songs of Passion are four further singers of the rising generation: baritone (and Erato artist) Huw Montague Rendall, contralto Jess Dandy, tenor Laurence Kilsby and bass Alex Rosen. Dowland is known for his intimate evocations of amorous melancholy in his writing for voice and for lute, while the music of Purcell - the greatest British-born composer of the Baroque era - encompasses a rich diversity of moods and emotions. To the fore on Songs of Passion are two of Purcell's works for the stage: The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas. Dido's famous lament, 'When I am laid in earth', forms the climax of the album.
1.1 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 1, Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
1.2 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 10, Semper Dowland, semper dolens, P. 9
1.3 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 9, Go Crystal Tears
1.4 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 12, The King of Denmark's Galliard, P. 40
1.5 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 5, Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
1.6 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 2, Lachrimae antiquae
1.7 A Dream, P. 75
1.8 Second Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 3, Sorrow, Stay
1.9 Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: No. 14, The Earl of Essex Galliard, P. 42
1.10 Second Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 2, Flow My Tears
1.11 Frog Galliard, P. 23
1.12 First Book of Songs or Ayres: No. 6, Now, o Now,
1.13 Needs Must Part
1.14 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 3: "If Love's a Sweet Passion"
1.15 Come, Ye Sons of Art Away, Z. 323: V. Strike the Viol
1.16 O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406
1.17 An Evening Hymn on a Ground, Z. 193
1.18 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 5: Chaconne
1.19 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 5: The Plaint. "O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep"
1.20 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 4: "Now the Night Is Chased Away"
1.21 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
1.22 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Ah Belinda!"
1.23 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: Echo Dances of Furies
1.24 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales"
1.25 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: The Witches's Dance
1.26 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Thy Hand, Belinda"
1.27 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: Dido's Lament. "When
1.28 Am Laid in Earth"
1.29 Take Me Back to You
