Blame Not My Lute (Elizabethan Lute Music & Poetry)
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: DSL92105
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 26th April 2010
Contents
Artists
Ronn McFarlane (lute)Robert Aubry Davis (spoken word)
Artists
Ronn McFarlane (lute)Robert Aubry Davis (spoken word)
About
'Blame Not My Lute' is the latest release from Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane, accompanied in voice by internationally known television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis.
McFarlane and Davis artfully match poetry and theatre works about the lute to the finest lute music taken from the same Elizabethan and Jacobean era. Originally presented as a live performance, Blame Not My Lute is a masterful mix of lilting verse by writers such as Shakespeare and Sir Thomas Wyatt, as well as enchanting lute music from the likes of John Dowland, and is the first recording of its kind.
One of the most outstanding lutenists performing today, Ronn McFarlane is largely responsible for bringing the transcendent charm and timeless quality of the lute into the musical mainstream and making it accessible to a larger audience with his Grammy-nominated album “Indigo Road”, which featured new lute compositions by McFarlane and which prompted the The Washington Times to write that Ronn McFarlane’s music is “…some of the most ravishing lute playing to be heard anywhere”.
McFarlane, a graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory and Peabody Conservatory, turned his full attention and energy to the lute in 1978. The following year, Ronn performed his first solo on the lute and became a member of the Baltimore Consort. Since that time, he has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with the Baltimore Consort and as a soloist. He has produced over 20 recordings.
Robert Aubry Davis produces and hosts Millennium of Music, heard on public radio stations nationwide. In addition to this weekly show, Davis also produces radio specials including On Holiday, a series of five one-hour programs that explore the music and culture of different European nations. Davis is a frequent lecturer and commentator for arts institutions throughout Washington D.C. and hosts the weekly arts discussion program Around Town for WETA TV in the nation’s capital. He is a contributing writer to newspapers, journals and cultural publications both nationally and internationally.
Blame Not My Lute will truly delight fans of early music, theatre lovers and Renaissance festival attendees, as well as traditional classical music enthusiasts.
Contents:
1. Bonny Sweet Boy
2. Blame Not My Lute
Blame Not My Lute (spoken poetry)
3. My Lady Hundson’s Puffe
4. Melancholy Galliard
King Henry VIII, Act III: Scene I (spoken poetry)
5. Kemp’s Jig
6. Packington’s Pound
7. A Woman Killed with Kindness (spoken poetry)
8. Lachrimae
9. The Taming of the Shrew, Act II: Scene I (spoken poetry)
10. Mrs Winter’s Jump
11. Go From My Window
Like As the Lute (spoken poetry)
12. When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings (spoken poetry)
13. Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home
14. Upon Julia’s Voice (spoken poetry)
15. Pavana Bray
16. Piper’s Galliard
If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree (spoken poetry)
17. Peg-a-ramsey/Robin Reddock
The Wanton Trick (spoken poetry)
18. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III: Scene II (spoken poetry)
19. A Fancy
20. Fortune My Foe
Objections Against the Immortality of the Soul (spoken poetry)
21. Queen Elizabeth’s Galliard
22. Tarleton’s Resurrection
My Lute Awake (spoken poetry)
Total Time: 50:36
McFarlane and Davis artfully match poetry and theatre works about the lute to the finest lute music taken from the same Elizabethan and Jacobean era. Originally presented as a live performance, Blame Not My Lute is a masterful mix of lilting verse by writers such as Shakespeare and Sir Thomas Wyatt, as well as enchanting lute music from the likes of John Dowland, and is the first recording of its kind.
One of the most outstanding lutenists performing today, Ronn McFarlane is largely responsible for bringing the transcendent charm and timeless quality of the lute into the musical mainstream and making it accessible to a larger audience with his Grammy-nominated album “Indigo Road”, which featured new lute compositions by McFarlane and which prompted the The Washington Times to write that Ronn McFarlane’s music is “…some of the most ravishing lute playing to be heard anywhere”.
McFarlane, a graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory and Peabody Conservatory, turned his full attention and energy to the lute in 1978. The following year, Ronn performed his first solo on the lute and became a member of the Baltimore Consort. Since that time, he has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with the Baltimore Consort and as a soloist. He has produced over 20 recordings.
Robert Aubry Davis produces and hosts Millennium of Music, heard on public radio stations nationwide. In addition to this weekly show, Davis also produces radio specials including On Holiday, a series of five one-hour programs that explore the music and culture of different European nations. Davis is a frequent lecturer and commentator for arts institutions throughout Washington D.C. and hosts the weekly arts discussion program Around Town for WETA TV in the nation’s capital. He is a contributing writer to newspapers, journals and cultural publications both nationally and internationally.
Blame Not My Lute will truly delight fans of early music, theatre lovers and Renaissance festival attendees, as well as traditional classical music enthusiasts.
Contents:
1. Bonny Sweet Boy
2. Blame Not My Lute
Blame Not My Lute (spoken poetry)
3. My Lady Hundson’s Puffe
4. Melancholy Galliard
King Henry VIII, Act III: Scene I (spoken poetry)
5. Kemp’s Jig
6. Packington’s Pound
7. A Woman Killed with Kindness (spoken poetry)
8. Lachrimae
9. The Taming of the Shrew, Act II: Scene I (spoken poetry)
10. Mrs Winter’s Jump
11. Go From My Window
Like As the Lute (spoken poetry)
12. When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings (spoken poetry)
13. Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home
14. Upon Julia’s Voice (spoken poetry)
15. Pavana Bray
16. Piper’s Galliard
If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree (spoken poetry)
17. Peg-a-ramsey/Robin Reddock
The Wanton Trick (spoken poetry)
18. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III: Scene II (spoken poetry)
19. A Fancy
20. Fortune My Foe
Objections Against the Immortality of the Soul (spoken poetry)
21. Queen Elizabeth’s Galliard
22. Tarleton’s Resurrection
My Lute Awake (spoken poetry)
Total Time: 50:36
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