In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movements: I saw my Lady weepe Randi Stene, Mezzo soprano Rolf Lislevand, Lute John Dowland, Composer Norwegian Baroque Orchestra Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, ...

The Alia Vox Heritage collection was established to revisit recordings of early renaissance music by Jordi Savall and his colleagues from the 1970s to the 1990s. Re-edited and remastered, this 1987 ...

John Dowland’s 1604 Lachrimae is described on its title page as “Seven Tears figured in seven passionate pavans, with diverse other pavans, galliards and almans, set forth for lute, viols, or violins, ...

“The most sensuously tuneful hour of music ever written”, is Phantasm director Laurence Dreyfus’s wittily provocative description of Dowland’s Lachrimae; you might expect it to be said of Puccini or ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Dowland, who died 400 years ago, spun out sad songs that were popular in his time and continue to influence artists today. John Dowland, a famous composer and lutenist of the ...

It was a great age. In 1604, while playgoers were in thrall to the first known performance of Shakespeare’s Othello, music lovers could revel in the first publication of Dowland’s highly original ...

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares Elizabeth Kenny, Lute John Dowland, Composer Phantasm How to describe Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares? Seven pavans for five-part viol consort with lute, each a ...