Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley | 
| Artists: John Dowland, Anthony Rooley, Emma Kirkby, Christopher Wilson, The Consort Of Musicke, Colin Tilney, Anthony Bailes, Jakob Lindberg, Nigel North, Glenda Simpson, Peter Holman, John Donne
Label: Decca
Category: Music
List Price: $95.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 140446
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 5 x 1.3
MPN: 000839402
UPC: 028945256320
EAN: 0028945256320
ASIN: B000004CYV
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 1. Unquiet thoughts | | • | 2. Who ever thinks of hopes of love | | • | 3. My thoughts are wing'd with hopes | | • | 4. If my complaints could passions move | | • | 5. Can she excuse my wrongs | | • | 6. Now, O now, I needs must part | | • | 7. Dear, if you change | | • | 8. Burst forth my tears | | • | 9. Go crystal tears | | • | 10. Think'st thou then by thy feigning | | • | 11. Come away, come sweet love | | • | 12. Rest awhile, you cruel cares | | • | 13. Sleep, wayward thoughts | | • | 14. All ye, whom Love or Fortune hath betray'd | | • | 15. Wilt thou unkind thus reave me | | • | 16. Would my conceit | | • | 17. Come again: sweet love doth now invite | | • | 18. His golden locks | | • | 19. Awake, sweet love | | • | 20. Come, heavy Sleep | | • | 21. Away with these self-loving lads |
Disc 2
| • | 1. I saw my Lady weep | | • | 2. Flow my tears | | • | 3. Sorrow, stay | | • | 4. Time's eldest son | | • | 5. Mourn, mourn, Day is with darkness fled | | • | 6. Time's eldest son | | • | 7. Then sit thee down | | • | 8. When others sing Venite | | • | 9. Praise blindness eyes | | • | 10. O sweet woods | | • | 11. If floods of tears | | • | 12. Fine knacks for ladies | | • | 13. Now cease my wand'ring eyes | | • | 14. Come ye heavy states of night | | • | 15. White as lilies was her face | | • | 16. Woeful heart | | • | 17. A shepherd in a shade | | • | 18. Faction that ever dwells | | • | 19. Shall I sue | | • | 20. Toss not my soul | | • | 21. Clear or cloudy | | • | 22. Humour say what mak'st thou here |
Disc 3
| • | 1. Farewell, too fair | | • | 2. Time stands still | | • | 3. Behold a wonder here | | • | 4. Daphne was not so chaste | | • | 5. Me, me, and none but me | | • | 6. When Phoebus first did Daphne love | | • | 7. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find | | • | 8. Flow not so fast, ye fountains | | • | 9. What if I never speed? | | • | 10. Love stood amazed | | • | 11. Lend your ears to my sorrow | | • | 12. By a fountain where I lay | | • | 13. O what hath overwrought | | • | 14. Farewell, unkind | | • | 15. Weep you no more, sad fountains | | • | 16. Fie on this feigning! | | • | 17. I must complain | | • | 18. It was a Time when silly bees | | • | 19. The lowest trees have tops | | • | 20. What poor astronomers are they | | • | 21. Come when I call |
Disc 4
| • | 1. Disdain me still | | • | 2. Sweet stay awhile | | • | 3. To ask for all thy love | | • | 4. Love, those beams that breed | | • | 5. Shall I strive with words to move? | | • | 6. Were every thought an eye | | • | 7. Stay, Time, awhile thy flying | | • | 8. Tell me, true Love | | • | 9. Go nightly cares | | • | 10. From silent night | | • | 11. Lasso vita mia | | • | 12. In this trembling shadow cast | | • | 13. If that a sinner's sighs | | • | 14. Thou mighty God | | • | 15. When David's life | | • | 16. When the poor cripple |
Disc 5
| • | 17. Where sin sore wounding | | • | 18. My heart and tongue were twins | | • | 19. Up merry mates | | • | 20. Welcome black Night | | • | 21. Cease, cease these false sports | | • | Unspecified Pavana and Galiarda | | • | Can She Excuse (Tisdale Virginal Book) | | • | Piper's Paven / Galliard | | • | Pavana Lachrymae |
Disc 6
| • | 1. The lamentation of a sinner | | • | 2. Domine ne in furore | | • | 3. Miserere mei Deus | | • | 4. The humble suit of a sinner | | • | 5. The humble complaint of a sinner | | • | 6. De profundis | | • | 7. Domine exaudi | | • | Lachrimae Antiquae | | • | Lachrimae Antiquae Novae | | • | Lachrimae Gementes | | • | Lachrimae Tristes | | • | Lachrimae Coactae | | • | Lachrimae Amantis | | • | Lachrimae Verae | | • | Mr John Langton's Pavan | | • | Mr Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard | | • | Sir John Souch his Galiard | | • | Semper Dowland Semper Dolens | | • | Mr Giles Hobies Galiard | | • | The King of Denmark's Galiard | | • | Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall | | • | Mr Henry Noell his Galiard | | • | The Earl of Essex Galiard | | • | Mr Bucton his Galliard | | • | Mr George Whitehead his Almand | | • | Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard | | • | Mr Thomas Collier his Galiard | | • | Mrs Nichols Almand |
Disc 7
| • | Work(s)~Unspecified Galliard |
Disc 8
| • | Lachrimae Pavan (after Dowland) | | • | Can she excuse Galliard (after Dowland) | | • | Captain Piper's Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland) | | • | The Frog Galliard (after Dowland) | | • | Dowland's First Galliard (from Cambridge manuscript part books, c. 1600) | | • | Mr john Langton Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland) | | • | La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland) | | • | Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland) |
Disc 9
| • | Unspecified Pavan a 4 (from Thomas Simpson: Taffel-Consort 1621) |
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| Customer Reviews:
A musical treasure-box September 9, 2006
Steven Guy (Croydon, South Australia)
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.
The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).
This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.
I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.
a beautiful journey into melancholy June 14, 2001
Juan C. Garay (Bogota, Colombia)
32 out of 39 found this review helpful
I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).
The greatest songs ever? July 26, 2007
Daniel Dennis (Oxford, England)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I heard 'clear or cloudy', from this recording, on the radio recently and had to purchase it. It is strange but it is the sort of song that makes life prior to listening to it different from life after. I find it sad that so many people haven't heard it. There are also many other wonderful works in this collection. Given you get twelve well recorded CDs with top quality performances, this has to be one of the bargains of the age.
Please buy it.
collected works of John Dowland December 23, 2007
M. B. Flint
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a fine recording of John Dowland's music, and worth your time if you are an early music enthusiast. The biggest highlights are the vocal recordings done by Emma Kirkby, who has a wonderful soprano voice that is perfect for the style of music. The solo lute recordings are also very nicely done, and highlight the lute's unique texture - these recordings do not sound like a guitar. I highly recommend this collection.
Lovely music March 10, 2008
Tamara Flores (Houston, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love these CDs. This music is absolutely gorgeous. I can't stop listening to it.
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