Thomas Hobbs, Romina Lischka & Sofie Vanden Eynde – Orpheus’ Noble Strings (2016) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Orpheus and his lyre: how to better picture the power of music? Orpheus could move stones to tears, he even moved to pity the gates of death. Music overturns the world, this the composers of the English Renaissance knew very well. Even more, music is the soul of the world, a unifying force. Thomas Hobbs celebrates the many facets of music in lutesongs, in particular those of by T. Campion and J. Danyel. It is not solely the lute which accompanies the song, but also less frequently heard instruments such as the lyra viol, the bandora, the orpharion. With their generous strings, these instruments bring to the ears the sound of Orpheus’ magical lyre.

Tracklist:
01. Rest, sweet Nymphs
02. Prelude
03. Music dear solace
04. Come live with me, and be my love
05. Time, cruel Time
06. Almaine
07. Truth, trying Time
08. Like as the lute delights
09. Pavin
10. Come away, come, sweet love
11. Can doleful notes
12. No let chromatic tunes
13. Uncertain certain turns
14. Prelude
15. Mounsiers Almaine
16. Coranto
17. The virgines muse
18. Cease leaden slumber
19. Musickes delight
20. Prelude
21. To music bent is my retired mind
22. What greater grief
23. Mr. Dowland’s Midnight
24. Go nightly cares
25. Down, down, proud minde

Composers:
Campion, Thomas (1567-1620)
Corkine, William (fl.1610-17)
Danyel, John (1564-c.1626)
Dowland, John (1563-1626)
Ferrabosco, Alfonso (1543-88)
Holborne, Antony (?1545-1602)
Hume, Tobias (c.1579-1645)
Pilkington, Francis (c.1570-1638)

Personnel:
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Romina Lischka, viola da gamba and lyra viol
Sofie Vanden Eynde, lute
Orpheus’ Noble Strings

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