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A Painted Tale
INTRODUCTION
THOMAS MORLEY
1.
A Painted Tale
2:39
THE TALE
HENRY PURCELL
2.
O solitude, my sweetest choice! Z406
5:42
ROBERT JOHNSON
3.
Have you seen but a bright Lily grow
1:54
JOHN BLOW
4.
Fairest work of happy nature
3:23
5.
The Self Banished
2:01
NICHOLAS LANIER
6.
Fire, fire
1:52
JOHN BLOW
7.
O turn not those fine eyes away
3:17
HENRY PURCELL
8.
Sweeter than roses Z585 No.1
3:21
9.
She loves and she confesses too Z413
2:16
NICHOLAS LANIER
10.
No more shall meads be deck'd with flowers
7:00
JOHN DOWLAND
11.
My thoughts are winged with hopes
2:34
JOHN BLOW
12.
Of all the torments, all the cares
3:57
JOHN DOWLAND
13.
Can she excuse my wrongs
2:31
HENRY PURCELL
14.
Not all my torments can your pity move Z400
2:48
ALFONSO FERRABOSCO II
15.
So, so, leave off this last lamenting kiss
2:49
JOHN DOWLAND
16.
In darkness let me dwell
3:50
17.
Now, O now I needs must part
4:35
18.
Come, heavy Sleep
3:44
NICHOLAS LANIER
19.
Stay, Silly Heart, and do not break
3:31
HENRY PURCELL
20.
Evening Hymn Z193
5:11
Total time: 68:55
Solo:Nicholas Phan tenor
Solo:Michael Leopold lute
Solo:Ann Marie Morgan viola da gamba
Notes
For his third AVIE album, tenor Nicholas Phan turns to a group of Renaissance and Baroque English composers who greatly influenced Benjamin Britten, the muse of his two previous recordings – Still falls the Rain (AV 2258) and Winter Words (AV 2238), his solo debut recording which topped the Best Classical Recordings lists of NPR, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. A Painted Tale – the title taken from a lyric by 16th century composer Thomas Morley – features songs with lute and viola da gamba by Blow, Dowland, Ferrabosco, Lanier and Purcell. Describing the programme, which tells a story of love gained and then lost, Nick says, “Reading the poetry in these songs I am fascinated by how little the human experience has changed over the centuries. By assembling these various songs into what I call ‘a pastiche song cycle,’ I hope that creating a dramatic context for these pieces will highlight how relevant this material still is today.”
Recorded 21 & 22 October 2014 at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA Producer, engineer and editing: Marlan Barry
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" This is wonderful singing I’ve never heard more moving performances of these final songs. The sound is very intimately recorded, but not too close
Robert Moore - American Record Guide - May/June 2015
Editor’s Choice - Vocal Section
The year has barely begun and already here’s a disc to remember come all of those end-of-year, round up
Alexandra Goghlan - Gramophone magazine - April 2015
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