Paul O'Dette - Portrait (2000)

Review
The cd is a sampler of O'Dette's recordings with the label Harmonia Mundi ranging from solo lute pieces to vocal ensembles. However, the mixture of the 22 tracks over 72 minutes becomes a fantastic musical and emotional journey. I quickly became attached to the album. Fantastic! This music and the performances of O'Dette have taken on a life of their own. It is a beautiful album that I would highly recommend to anybody that has a love for the lute as well as the music of the 15th-17th centuries. It is an album you will keep and play forever and ever.

Track List:

01. John Dowland - Sir John Smith, his Almain, for lute, P 47 2:29
02. John Dowland - Forlorn Hope, fantasie for lute, P 2 3:52
03. John Dowland - (Pavan) 5:25
04. Santiago de Murcia - La Jota 5:57
05. Santiago de Murcia - Cumbées, for guitar 2:30
06. Joan Ambrosio Dalza - Piva (from Il Libro del Cortegiano) 2:10
07. Anonymous - Emperor of the moon 2:08
08. Marco dall'Aquila - La Battaglia 3:28
09. Claudio Monteverdi - Voglio di vita uscir, madrigal for soprano (in manuscript) 4:54
10. John Dowland - Jig, for lute in C minor, P 78 (possibly spurious) 2:19
11. John Dowland - Can she excuse (The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard), galliard for lute, P 42 1:39
12. John Dowland - The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lisle (Sir Robert Sidney, his galliard), for lute, P 38 (A Musical Banquet) 2:51
13. Georg Friedrich Händel - Acis and Galatea, oratorio, HWV 49 (Aria: Come la rondinella) 6:00
14. English Traditional - Greensleeves, English folk song 3:50
15. John Playford - The Glory of the West 1:39
16. John Playford - The Queen's Jigg 3:57
17. Cuthbert Hely - Fantasias (3) for lute 4:07
18. Cuthbert Hely - Sarabande for lute 0:52
19. Richard Alison - Go from my Windoe 3:47
20. Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger - Toccata for chitarrone No. 2 3:27
21. Jacopo Peri - Hor che gli augelli 3:09
22. Adrian Le Roy - Je ne seray jamais bergere 1:07

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