Renaissance: Desire

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Bringing the club floor yet closer to the living room sofa, this is another double-disc set bringing the Renaissance nights to your home. Your host for this set is trance-house Brit David Seaman, and with his deft sense of mood and tempo the driving force here, Desire starts off slowly yet has absorbed you wholly by the time Solid Sessions' high-energy, uptempo classic "Janiero" slides into your ears. Never obvious, never cheesy yet always populist enough to attract clubbing novices, Desire builds slowly to a cruise-control 90 miles per hour, Seaman more interested in weaving trance-house dreamscapes than showering the room with beats per minute. Some of 2000's classic names resurface ("Pete Heller Presents Sputnik," Way Out West's "Mindcircus"), but so too does Seaman's creative use of Placebo's "Passive Aggressive," Junkie XL's "B Y Whop Too Be Y," and Finlay Quaye's "Spiritualized." A fine set, and one that is rich and decadent in the finer elements of trance-house without ever being ostentatious or overbearing. Indeed, if the more sophisticated hedonistic Romans enjoyed a bit of electronica, this might well have been their mix. --Steffan Chirazi

Tracks:

Achieved Is The Glorious Work
Fugue In D Minor
Andante
Poco Adagio
Poco Sostenuto
Intrada
Canone
Interludium
Corale
Intermezzo
Arietta
Toccatina
Ave Maria
Part I
Part II
Part III
Canzona
Dieu! Qu'il La Fait Bon Regarder!
Quant J'Ai Ouy Le Tabourin
Yver, Vous N'estes Qu'un Villain
Die Nachtigall
Langsamer Satz
Moderato Maestoso
Andantino
Minuetto
Choral
Scherzo
No More Blues

Customer Reviews:

A must-have album for trombonists.......2002-12-27

No instrument blends as well with one another as the trombone, and these four trombonists are among the best at what they do. Joseph Alessi, Scott Hartman, Mark Lawrence, and Blair Bollinger all exhibit great musicality.

Definitely worth buying........2000-05-05

I too must agree that these four gentlemen have produced a very fine album that covers a wide variety of genres. They had obviously put a lot of work into these particlular pieces and, even though all of them are branching out into solo careers, manage to work well as a group. My favourites are the Haydn, Serocki and No more Blues, even though (dare I say it) I prefer some interpretations by other quartets (eg. Triton Trombone Quartet playing the Serocki). I personally feel that the recording quality lets them down a bit at times. The 2nd & 3rd trombones in particular sound a little 'fuzzy' from time to time; whether that's the recording or perhaps their horn I can't say. Nevertheless I have been inspired once again to practice diligently upon listening to this CD. It's worth the money.

These guys are trombone studs!.......1999-11-21

Other players in my college trombone section kept recommending this CD to me, so I finally ordered it, and I'm very glad I finally listened to them. This is a must-have for the serious trombonist. After all, these are four of the not only best trombonists you'll hear, but best musicians also. "Achieved" is always a good one, along with the beautifully simple "Three Equali" and "Trois Chansons." Who would have thought that such fine soloists would perform so well as one unit, a true ensemble sound. Where else can you hear a guy hold out a high D-flat for about 20 seconds, or a trombonists squeelin high E's and double-high A's at the end? As a trombonist and aspiring performer, I say BUY IT!

A must-buy for any trombone or brass enthusiast!.......1999-09-23

Fantastic ensemble playing coupled with a beautiful selection of music make this CD one of the favorites in my collection. These gentlemen are truly some of the finest artists in their field.

Superb! Fantastic! Perfect!.......1999-03-12

I'm a trombone player, and I know what I'm talking about. These guys have been to schools such as Juliard in New York and have studied to become professional musicains most of there lives. In this CD they are right on top of things and don't miss a beat. My personal favorite is No More Blues, the last track on this particular CD. I tell ya, I couldn't be more extatic about four trombone players. These guys are top notch, and are way beyong the Canadian Brass if you ask me, and seeing as how I play the trombone, you might want to. These guys are perfect players, and almost couldn't be better. WOW about sums it up!

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100 Hymns & Songs of Inspiration

Manufacturer: Castle Music UK
ProductGroup: Music
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Tracks:

Love Divine All Loves Excelling - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
Father Hear the Prayer We Offer - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
Now Thank We All Our God - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
This Day, The First of Days - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
Stars of the Morning So Gloriously Bright - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
God Save the Queen - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
Day of Resurrection - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
Of the Father's Heart Begotten - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
O Come All Ye Faithful - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
Awake My Soul and With the Sun - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
Thine Arm O Lord in Days of Old - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
All People That on Earth Do Dwell - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
Good Christian Men Rejoice and Sing - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
There Is a Green Hill - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
Lord of Beauty - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
Rejoice Today With One Accord - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
New Every Morning - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
Lead Us Heavenly Father Lead Us - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
O God Our Help in Ages Past - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral

Tracks:

Morning Has Broken - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Happy Are They - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
In Christ There Is No East or West - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Silent Night - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Be Thou My Guardian - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Ye Servants of the Lord - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
At the Name of Jesus Every Knee Shall Bow - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
To Thee O Lord Our Hearts We Raise - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Behold the Great Creator Makes - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Rejoice the Lord Is King - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
Creator of the Stars of Night - Ely Cathedral Choir
He Comes With Clouds Descending - Ely Cathedral Choir
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Ely Cathedral Choir
Alleluya Alleyluya Alleyluya - Ely Cathedral Choir
This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made - Ely Cathedral Choir
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds - Ely Cathedral Choir
Lord Thy Word Abideth - Ely Cathedral Choir
Jesus Lord We Look to Thee - Ely Cathedral Choir
O Lord Our God Arise - Ely Cathedral Choir
Lord of All Hopefulness - Ely Cathedral Choir

Tracks:

Soldiers of Christ Arise - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Lift Up Your Hearts - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Holy Father, Cheer Our Way - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Maker of the Sun - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
O King Most High - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
O Praise Our Great and Glorious Lord - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
We Love the Place O God - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Give Rest O Christ - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
Come Holy Ghost Our Hearts Inspire - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
O Thou in All Thy Might So Far - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
O Christ, Who Art the Light and Day - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
O God Thy Soldiers' Crown and Guard - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
Strife Is O'er the Battle Done - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
O Christ Our Hope, Our Hearts' Desire - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
Jesus Shall Reign - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
God of Love My Shepherd Is - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
O Jesu Saviour of Mankind - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
Immortal Invisible God Only Wise - Choir Of Truro Cathedral

Tracks:

Ride on Ride on in Majesty - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
All Glory Laud and Honour - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
Come Rejoicing - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
God Is Love and Where True Love Is - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
Magnificat: The Great Advent Antiphons - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
Come, Christ's Beloved - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
Children of the Hebrews (Palm Procession) - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
Veneration of the Cross/The Reproaches (Veneratum and Reproaches) - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
Once in Royal David's City - Choir Of Keble College
God Be in My Head - Choir Of Keble College
O Thou Who Camest from Above - Choir Of Keble College
Judge Eternal Throned in Splendour - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
Christ the Lord Is Risen Again - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
For All the Saints - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
Thy Hand O God Has Guided - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
Christ the Dawn of Our Salvation - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
I Was Glad - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Locus Iste - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Praise My Soul the King of Heaven - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel

Tracks:

Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus! - The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks - The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
O Worship the King - The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
O Heavenly Word of God on High - Choir Of The Collegiate Church Of St Mary
Praise to the Lord, The Almighty - Choir Of The Collegiate Church Of St Mary
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today - The Choir of York Minister
First Nowell - The Choir of York Minister
Abide with Me - The Choir of York Minister
Breathe on Me Breath of God - Choir Of Keble College
Rock of Ages - Choir Of Keble College
On This Day, The First of Days - Choir Of Keble College
Jesu Sweet and Mary - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
O Quam Gloriosum - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Ye Holy Angels Bright - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
O for a Closer Walk With God - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Prayer of St Patrick - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Lord's Prayer - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Blessed Be the God and Father - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times) - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel

Album Description

Full Title - 100 Hymns & Songs Of Inspiration. UK box-set featuring 100 tracks performed by Britain's finest Cathedral Choirs including, Gloucester Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, Sheffield Cathedral, & many more. Five standard jewel cases housed in a slipbox. Castle Pulse. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

The picture.......2006-12-11

I haven't purchased the CD but the picture of the inside of a church on the cover is not of a British church, like one would assume since it says its a recording of British choirs. This picture is of Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Just thought i'd let you know. I'll be honest; I'm one to judge things by it's cover and if the company took such care to choose a 'British' church for their British choir CD, I'm willing to bet the music is equally well selected... I'm being sarcastic. But I gave the product 5 stars because I didn't want to hurt its ratings just because i'm cynical. But check out the church if you're ever in Montreal, it's truly beautiful... here I'm not being sarcastic.

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The Epic Album by Dave Seaman That I've Been Searching For
Happy with my purchase. Great seller.
Tight set
Packed with hits, but not quite on par with his back catalog
Seaman is a genius

Renaissance: Desire
Dave Seaman
Manufacturer: Ultra Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Bringing the club floor yet closer to the living room sofa, this is another double-disc set bringing the Renaissance nights to your home. Your host for this set is trance-house Brit David Seaman, and with his deft sense of mood and tempo the driving force here, Desire starts off slowly yet has absorbed you wholly by the time Solid Sessions' high-energy, uptempo classic "Janiero" slides into your ears. Never obvious, never cheesy yet always populist enough to attract clubbing novices, Desire builds slowly to a cruise-control 90 miles per hour, Seaman more interested in weaving trance-house dreamscapes than showering the room with beats per minute. Some of 2000's classic names resurface ("Pete Heller Presents Sputnik," Way Out West's "Mindcircus"), but so too does Seaman's creative use of Placebo's "Passive Aggressive," Junkie XL's "B Y Whop Too Be Y," and Finlay Quaye's "Spiritualized." A fine set, and one that is rich and decadent in the finer elements of trance-house without ever being ostentatious or overbearing. Indeed, if the more sophisticated hedonistic Romans enjoyed a bit of electronica, this might well have been their mix. --Steffan Chirazi

Customer Reviews:

The Epic Album by Dave Seaman That I've Been Searching For.......2007-07-26

You have to love it when you purchase an old, outdated electronica album and end up being completely blown away by it. Renaissance: Desire by Dave Seaman is one such album for me.

I've never been overly fond of Dave Seaman's commercial sets that I've listened to in the past. I liken him a lot to John Digweed in this regard. Both are two of the best DJ's to hear live on any given night, but I've never felt either of their stellar live-performing skills are ever adequately transposed to the world of commercial electronica compilations. I've yet to find one I love with John Digweed's (minus Sasha) name, but the search is over for a great album by Dave Seaman.

Disc 1 is one of the best sets I've heard on a commercial album despite it being over 6 years old. A complete gem that is solid in track selection, mixing, and layout. This will forever be a true timeless classic. Rare in the world of electronica.

Disc 2 increases the tempo slightly, but thankfully does succumb to the similar pattern that all of his Global Underground albums did (i.e. disc 2 is usually a solid set of hard and unrelenting progressive house and trance). This album's disc 2 stays true to the epic musical journey that Seaman flawlessly created over disc 1. It is not as good as disc 1 due to three similar sounding vocal tracks that feel out of place when the whole album is listened to in its entirity ("So Strong" by Ben Shaw/Digby & Oliver, "Love Like Sleep" by Jimmy Van M, and "Mindcircus" by Way Out West). Despite three dud tracks the set is still very good.

Disc 1 gets 5/5 stars, and disc 2, 4/5 stars.

Happy with my purchase. Great seller........2006-11-10

This cd is a classic Renaissance. Glad to have found it at such a great price

Tight set.......2006-08-20

This is a tight set from one of the best dj's out there. Not sure if this is Seaman's best work, but it is definitely a contender. Try Seaman's renaissance master series or Nick warren's renaissance. Janeiro Solid sessions is rocking.

Packed with hits, but not quite on par with his back catalog.......2003-04-30

Let's hear it for one of Britain's more prolific DJ's. You can always count on Dave Seaman to put out a new two-disc trance release every five months or so. Desire marks his third Renaissance mix, following 1999's superb America and last year's import-only Awakening. And like his other productions, this new creation packs today's dance club hits, to an even greater degree than the past.

Of note is the larger percentage of house-based cuts further blurring the lines between musical genres. Highlights include the back half of disc 1, Danny Howell's funky vocal handbag `Breathe,' the X-Press 2 dub of `Deliver Me,' and a complete rework of Schiller's deep trancer `Ruhe' into a chunky Tom Middleton piece.

Disc two fares even better as Dave goes unexpectedly mental; the robotic minimalism of Elisium `Part 1' is a bold inclusion, as is grubby wanna-rock Nat Monday's `Waiting,' a spot-on setup for Roland Klinkenberg's punchy breakbeat `Inner Laugh." Whether Seaman fans will appreciate this brooding atmosphere and acappella-stuffing is a question, but it certainly shows the man can juggle various moods.

Back to packing the hits, this has what's currently buzzing the charts in spades. Many of these tunes either are or will be on other sets shortly, which hurts some of the long-term playability of Desire. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but from Dave Seaman, a man who obviously has access to countless bins of underground gems, we should expect a bit more. Bottom line: Dave Seaman goes Pete Tong Essential Mix, and the results are a bit mixed. Good, but compared with his back catalog, a tad mediocre.

Seaman is a genius.......2002-02-05

I've been searching for a DJ as talented as Oakenfold for while. Dave Seaman did not disappoint me at all. So subtle that some people might feel it's elevator music. But if you listen closely and turn up the volume, you WILL be amazed.

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You don't need a Wayback machine
A Very Good Compilation of Elizabethan Music
Light classics with historical charm

Elizabeth's Music

Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
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Jane Pickering Lute Book: The Queen's Treble
Consort Lessons: O Mistris Mine (Twelfth Night)
Consort Lessons: My Lord Oxenfords Maske
Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
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Shall I Come Sweet Love To Thee?
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My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Fortune My Foe
Queen Elizabeth's Galliard
Mrs. Winter's Jump

Customer Reviews:

You don't need a Wayback machine.......2001-12-05

Just get a CD like this one to get a broad brush review of the popular hits of the late 1500s. While I would have liked a few more recorder pieces, almost every cut was interesting in its own way. If you want just one early music CD with English songs, this is probably the one to get.

A Very Good Compilation of Elizabethan Music.......2001-09-27

"Elizabeth's Music" is a great cd to listen to if you are an enthusiast of ballads, the lute or old fashioned jigs. This cd really puts you in the alehouses, courts and courtyards of the Elizebethan age. The music is preformed well and the voices are very authentic and beautiful. The CD loses one star because most of the songs are on other Dorian-released CDs! I got the cd and found out most of the songs were the exact same ones on my "Shakespeare's Music" CD and other Dorian CDs. Ah well. All Elizabethan enthusiasts will enjoy this eclectic collection.

Light classics with historical charm.......2000-01-07

Really enjoyed this CD. Light and pleasant, without being too pretentious. Great background music for home or office.

I Love Lucette: French Theatrical Chansons

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I Love Lucette: French Theatrical Chansons

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Content desir
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Road of Desire
Damned Nation
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Release Date: 2000-02-22

Tracks:

Come Hell Or High Water
When The Truth Becomes A Lie
Road Of Desire
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Soulstealer
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Move Now with Measured Sound: Music by Thomas Campion

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a voice teacher and early music fan

Move Now with Measured Sound: Music by Thomas Campion
Robin Blaze , and Elizabeth Kenny
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00005RT4I
Release Date: 2001-12-11

Customer Reviews:

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-01-19

This is a good representation of Campions' songs considering that he wrote so many of them. It is likely that Campion,not himself a professional performing musician, thought it the role of the performer to fashion their own lute parts:'For the notes and Tablature, if they satisfie the most, we have our desire; but let expert masters please themselves with better'. This seems to support the notion that Campion wished his own texts to be respected and not overshadowed by music. Far from being a foursquare musical Mr. Average, he shows himself to be a musical revolutionary. While the florid vocal writing of the Italians was an innovation to which his poetry was not suited, his sense of harmony and the responsibility given to the performer in 'creating' the music from a tune and a bass was new. One has to remember that his life was quite exciting living in the "fast lane" so to speak. I mention this fact because the emotional investment on the part of the singer must be great encompassing all sorts of tone color and vocal nuances. All of the singing is "pretty" but except for a couple of the songs such as "I Care Not For These Ladies" and "Fain Would I Wed" which showed some measure of drama, I didn't feel anything with the rest of them. Blaze has an excellent voice, but unfortunately the emotion is not always there. I think he comes across best in sacred music..Just my opinion.There are 23 songs on this disc. Many have been frequently recorded by other singers, particularly countertenors. Some of the most familiar are:'It Fell on a Summer's day'-'I care not for these Ladies'-Fire! Fire!'-'The cypress-curtain of the night'-'Fain Would I Wed'- and 2 sacred songs:'Author of Light' and 'Never Weather-beaten sail'.

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a voice teacher and early music fan
Serious Drawback
Pleasant recital of Dowland contemporary

Campion: Elizabethan Songs

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Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

Beauty, Since You So Much Desire
Love Me Or Not
Your Fair Looks
Never Love Unless You Can
O Never To Be Moved
The Cypress Curtain Of The Night
Awake Thou Spring Of Speaking Grace
Come, You Pretty False-Eyed Wanton
So Tired Are All My Thoughts
Fire, Fire
Pined I Am, And Like To Die
Author Of Light
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Fair, If You Expect Admiring
Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee?
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Customer Reviews:

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-12-24

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was a poet as well as a musician, and his songs definately reflect this ability, for they could just as well be read as sung. Philip Rosseter ( his friend) states that his 118 songs were "superfluous blossomes of his deeper Studies," no doubt referring to his Latin poetry , or perhaps medicine, which was his profession. What Campion did better than Dowland, or any other English composer of the day, was to "couple my words and notes lovingly together, which will be much for him to doe that hath not power over both." It is best to listen to them in order of priority to poem, melody and lastly singer. His melodies are simplistic and unadorned by shocking harmony designed to overpower the weight of the word itself. T.S. Eliot was in no doubt about Campion's quality:"except for Shakespeare, the most accomplished master of rhymed lyric of his time."
The performance of these songs by Drew Minter (countertenor) accompanied by Paul O'Dette (lute) is really quite outstanding. I must say that this disc is so much better than Minter's other disc of lute songs "Sweeter Than Roses". His voice had a much clearer tone quality and he did not get 'nasal' or 'edgy' as he is prone to do. He kept his voice light and distinct with very neat diction. When he goes for a loud full sound like Michael Chance or David Daniels his voice is not pleasant to hear. But this album is very good and his emotional investment into each song was excellent. Just a very good LISTEN!!!!

Serious Drawback.......2006-04-08

Elizabethan Songs. Twenty-two songs by Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620), performed by Drew Minter (countertenor) and Paul O’Dette (lute).
Recorded in November 1989 at Bethel United Church of Christ, Manchester, Michigan.
Harmonia Mundi. Originally issued as HMU 907023, now re-issued as part of the budget-price Classical Express series as HMCX 3957023. Total time: 58’23”.

Thomas Campion was a contemporary of both Shakespeare and Dowland and was a medical doctor who wrote poetry which he also set to music. Drew Minter performs twenty-two of these here with his inimitable coppery countertenor, a voice which is, in fact, very beautiful, but needs considerable getting used to if you are new to it. (Minter sings at alto pitch, but nobody would mistake him for a female!) He is accompanied by master lutenist Paul O’Dette, whose contribution remains fairly quietly in the background. The songs themselves are, of course, in Elizabethan English, making them rather difficult to understand. And this is where this CD suffers a serious drawback: the texts are not printed in the thin CD booklet; instead, there is a note saying that they can be downloaded from the internet, but when I tried to visit the site mentioned (on more than one occasion recently), the server was down, the address unknown. I nevertheless enjoyed listening, but without really knowing what Minter was singing so delightfully about. Campion’s melodies sound to my ear a little “samish”, and I occasionally found myself wishing that the program had been interrupted by a lute solo or two.

Pleasant recital of Dowland contemporary.......2001-03-28

There is little overlap between this Campion CD and the similar recital featuring another American countertenor, Steven Rickards, on Naxos. However if forced to choose between the two note that the Naxos release includes sung texts, while this one from Classical Express does not. On the other hand O'Dette is a more characterful lute player.

Average customer rating:

Fine recital of neglected composer
Good Performance but the content?

Campion: Lute Music

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Come Let Us Sound With Melody
Tune Thy Musicke To Thy Hart
Come You Pretty False-Ey'D Wanton
There Is None, O None But You
Sweet Exclude Mee Not
I Care Not For These Ladies
Though You Are Yoong And I Am Olde
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire!
What Then Is Love But Mourning?
Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee?
Beauty, Since You So Much Desire
What Is It All That Men Possesse?
The Sypres Curten Of The Night
Jacke And Jone They Think No Ill
It Fell On A Sommers Daie
When To Her Lute Corrina Sings
My Sweetest Lesbia
Her Rosie Cheekes, Her Ever Smiling Eyes
Faire, If You Expect Admiring
There Is A Garden In Her Face
Author Of Light
Never Weather-Beaten Saile
Most Sweet And Pleasing Are Thy Wayes
To Musicke Bent Is My Retyred Minded
Thou Joy'St, Fond Boy
Turne All Thy Thoughts To Eyes
Vaile, Love Mine Eyes
Miserere My Maker

Customer Reviews:

Fine recital of neglected composer.......2000-10-29

I'd agree with the earlier reviewer that this CD is for those who have already tried Dowland. However Dowland has been fortunate in the recording studio and Campion much neglected (this appears to be the only disc dedicated to him currently available) so Naxos deserve our thanks for having brought Rickards and Linell back together for a second disc. What is particularly encouraging is to find a whole disc of songs, not just a few raisins in a cake of viol music which is how Dowland and his contemporaries are normally represented. Not that I've anything against mixed recitals - the collaborations of Fretwork with Red Byrd are beautiful - but it tends to be the same better known songs.

The first recordings of early English music on the Naxos label (I'm thinking of Summerly's earlier recordings of Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons) lacked texts, that has been corrected in later releases, including both this disc (timing 52:52), and the earlier Rickards Dowland recital (8.553381, 1997, timing 74:08). Sound on both discs is more than adequate.

Good Performance but the content?.......2000-02-01

I make no claims to being knowledable about the intricacies of this music. But if I were giving stars I'd give the performance four or five and the content...um...that's the hard part.

I bought this out of curiosity. Campion's lyrics turn up occasionally in anthologies of poetry and I was curious to hear the songs. I own Rickards and Linell's "Dowland: Flow my tears and other lute songs" and i play it often so I also wanted to know what Dowland's competition sounded like.

Firstly, the performance is of the same high standard as on the other disk. Which is good. Linell plays well and Rickards' voice is fine. The liner notes provide good background information as well as the words to the songs. The only real complaint I could have about the performance is probably related to production: The lute sounds small, thin and distant compared with, say, Bream's lute on "The golden age of English Lute music" or Lindberg's on "The complete solo lute music". This is true of the pair's Dowland recording as well but it may only be a drawback if you're trying to use the performances as a guide to playing the songs yourself. ( I was).

The real drawback to this recording though is the material. Play the Dowland and you're liable to find yourself humming odd snatches of the songs. Play the Campion and you're liable to have difficulty remembering any of the individual tunes. Nor do the lyrics redeem the music. He probably was a "better " lyric writer than Dowland (whatever that means) but music wise Dowland beats him hollow.