Veteran English tenor Charles Daniels is best known for his careful, penetrating readings of large Baroque choral roles. This disc of famous (Thomas Campion's Fire fire and a couple of Morley classics) and not-so-famous (William Corkine's Beauty sat bathing) represents an unusual repertoire for him and another distinctive release connected with Canada's ATMA label and Montreal's vibrant early music scene. The lute song of the late sixteenth century, too, is sung at least as often by countertenors (or by women) as by tenors. ...
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Veteran English tenor Charles Daniels is best known for his careful, penetrating readings of large Baroque choral roles. This disc of famous (Thomas Campion's Fire fire and a couple of Morley classics) and not-so-famous (William Corkine's Beauty sat bathing) represents an unusual repertoire for him and another distinctive release connected with Canada's ATMA label and Montreal's vibrant early music scene. The lute song of the late sixteenth century, too, is sung at least as often by countertenors (or by women) as by tenors. The result of the reduction of Daniels' voice to chamber dimensions, together with the removal of the usual dramatic quality of the countertenor voice, is a rather sober set of lute songs, one that is quietly sad rather than elaborately melancholy. Daniels' readings might be a bit better suited to the contrapuntally artful style of Dowland than to the rather airier music of the second generation of lute song composers represented on the disc, and it is curious that nothing by...
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Add this copy of Lute Songs to cart. $25.39, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by ATMA Classique.
