Johannette Zomer, Fred Jacobs – With Endless Teares (2009) [MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Johannette Zomer, Fred Jacobs - With Endless Teares (2009) [MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC] Download

This is sublime: quite simply the finest registration of 17th century English song on the market. It’s one of those perfectly designed programmes, which have all the built-in variety you need for over an hour’s uninterrupted listening pleasure. There is plenty here for the casual listener and connoisseur alike and, despite the title, the introspective mood is upliftingly beautiful throughout. The scholarly preparation which makes this possible, and the clear sense that these interpretations have been honed, through regular performance, are what we’ve come to expect from the brilliantly successful partnership of Dutch soprano and the lutenist… An outstanding achievement on every front.There is a gradual increase in the use of bass line notation, implying a continuo realization, instead of complete tablature as accompaniment for lute song in Jacobean England, after about 1610. Although the lute was to remain the accompanying instrument of choice, other instruments, theorbos for example, could now replace it, depending on the situation. It is not clear when the theorbo was first used in England but the great architect, stage designer and masque producer Inigo Jones has been mentioned as having brought the first one back from a journey to Italy before 1605. The new Italian vocal music came from different sources: Robert Dowland printed Caccini’s Amarilli in his Musical Banquet in 1610 and Angelo Notari published his Prime Nuove Musiche (per cantare con la tiorba…) in London in 1613. Its declamatory style became particularly popular in the context of Jones’ masque: an extravagant art form as Stuart propaganda, combining grandiose theatre effects dance and ‘operatic’ singing, often accompanied by a consort of plucked instruments.

Tracklist:

01. Robert Johnson: Have you seen but the bright lily grow
02. Robert Johnson: Woods, rocks and mountains
03. Robert Johnson: With endless tears
04. Robert Johnson: Come hither you that love
05. Robert Johnson: Come, heavy sleep
06. Robert Johnson: Almain
07. Robert Johnson: The Prince’s Almain
08. Nicholas Lanier: Mark how the blushful morn
09. Nicholas Lanier: I wish no more
10. Nicholas Lanier: No more shall meads be deck’d with flowers
11. Robert Johnson: Almain
12. Robert Johnson: Almain
13. Henry Lawes: Amarillis by a spring
14. Henry Lawes: Amintor’s welladay
15. Henry Lawes: Sleep soft, you cold clay cinders
16. Henry Lawes: Chloris dead, lamented by Amintor
17. Jacques Gautier: Courante
18. Jacques Gautier: Volte
19. Henry Lawes: Ariadne’s Lament
20. Jacques Gautier: Courante
21. Jacques Gautier: Cloches
22. Pelham Humfrey: Cupid once, when weary grown
23. Pelham Humfrey: Oh! That I had but a fine man
24. Pelham Humfrey: O love, if e’er thou’lt ease a heart
25. Pelham Humfrey: How severe is forgetful old age
26. Henry Purcell: If grief has any pow’r
27. Henry Purcell: When first Amintas sued for a kiss
28. Henry Purcell: Music for a while
29. Henry Purcell: Farewell, all joys!