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WH 0034

Songs for Soprano and Lute

Released Date:
01 Mar 2010

Originally recorded in 2010
Artists:

Matthew Wadsworth

lute & theorbo

Carolyn Sampson

soprano

Venue:

Wigmore Hall, London



Producer:

Jeremy Hayes



Engineer:

Tony Faulkner



Record Label
Wigmore Hall

Genre:

Chamber


Vocal & Song

Total Time - 75:32
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PHILIP ROSSETER

1 

Prelude

 1:30
  solo lute  
 

ROBERT JOHNSON

2 

Away delights

 3:19
3 

Oh, let us howl

 2:36
4 

Care-charming sleep

 3:58
   
 

ALFONSO FERRABOSCO

5 

Pavan IV

 3:48
  solo lute  
 

ANONYMOUS

6 

Galliard

 2:10
  solo lute  
 

JOHN DOWLAND

7 

Fortune my foe

 6:32
   
 

ROBERT JOHNSON

8 

Pavan in C minor

 6:02
  solo lute  
 

JOHN DOWLAND

9 

Can she excuse my wrongs

 2:52
10 

In darkness let me dwell

 4:55
   
 

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

11 

Quel sguardo sdegnosetto

 2:18
   
 

ALESSANDRO GRANDI

12 

O quam tu pulchra es

 4:02
   
 

ALESSANDRO PICCININI

13 

Toccata XIII

 3:16
  solo theorbo  
14 

Partite Variate Sopra La Folia

 5:25
  solo theorbo  
 

GIULIO CACCINI

15 

Amarilli mia bella

 2:53
   
 

GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER

16 

Toccata arpeggiate

 2:54
  solo theorbo  
17 

'Kapsberger'

 4:31
  solo theorbo  
 

TARQUINIO MERULA

18 

Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nonna

 9:22
   
  encore  
19 announcement 0:06
 

ROBERT JOHNSON

20 

Have you seen the bright lily grow?

 3:03


London was as diverse and multi-cultural in 1610 as it is today. On this live recording Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth  take you on a rich and colourful journey which embraces not only our own culture, but that of our European counterparts in Italy, France and Belgium, as well as a few surprises along the way.

Matthew Wadsworth’s and Carolyn Sampson’s eclectic programme draws on Robert Dowland’s A Musicall Banquet and Varietie of Lute Lessons, both published in 1610, although they venture back a few years to the masterpieces of John Dowland and Robert Johnson.

2Sitting beside Wadsworth [for songs by Johnson], and singing as much to him as to us, Sampson established a fireside confidentiality, using a folk-ballad tone with just the faintest hint of vibrato: her warm, open sound was arrestingly expressive.

When Wadsworth brought on the theorbo, and the songs became darker, we were in a different realm. Sampson’s ‘In Darkness Let Me Dwell’ began as a sad exhalation, dramatically broadening in plangency before dying back again.

For some rarely performed Monteverdi songs, she reminded us what a fabulous sound she can summon up, while Wadsworth brought out the fruits of his musicological research." The Independent (on the concert)

"A well planned and varied recital from Sampson and Wadsworth."

Fabrice Fitch

Gramophone - September 2010

    ***/****

Claudio Bolzan

Musica - May 2010

                Choral & Song Choice

Performance *****      Recording ****

"Not Just Dowland espouses an Anglo-Italian sequence punctuating songs with instrumental items that’prelude’ most appositely, or contrive to comment on what’s just been heard. Matthew Wadsworth’s lute and theorbo don’t simply provide a change of texture and respite from the imperatives of the sung word, they craft a seamless expressive narrative."

Paul Riley

 

 

 

BBC Music Magazine - May 2010

"Matthew Wadsworth really is a quite extraordinary musician, graceful, civilised and intelligent. He has an enormous ability to draw an audience into his own world"
 

Early Music Review

                    -  CD of the Week  -

"The pleasure of her [Sampson’s] perfection is enhanced by the diversity of her selection...Short of actually being there, this is live music at its best. Some enchanted evening..."   *****
 

The Lebrecht Report

                    -  Album of the Week  -

"Together [Sampson & Wadsworth] weave a superb tapestry of little-known 17th-century vocal music."

The Independent

"Carolyn Sampson’s pure soprano cossets the words, savouring their expressive implications, relishing their shifts of rhythm and subtly sighing with bliss, yearning or heartache depending on the circumstances"       ****

The Daily Telegraph



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