“Care-Charming Sleep” by Robert Johnson (1583-1633)
#JamesBowman #countertenor
#RobertSpencer #lute
https://youtu.be/DDMoER6kSWM (2:10)
#Elizabethan #LuteSong
from the album "Elizabethan Lute Songs - Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary"
℗ 1972 Parlophone Records Limited Remastered (p) 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company

Care-charming sleep,
thou Easer of all woes,
brother to death,
sweetly thyself dispose
On this afflicted night
fall like a Cloud in gentle show'rs...

#Sting sings "In Darkness Let Me Dwell"
by John #Dowland (c1563-1626)
accompanied by #lutenist #EdinKaramazov
...the song is described as "possibly the most perfect song ever written in the English language"...

https://youtu.be/EBJkb5wrw-Q?si=bMrkD9HFzqDWfOpB (5:18)
#lutesong #lute

A #lutesong by Thomas #Campion
from Two Bookes of #Ayres, 1613

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #renaissance violin

From Passamezzo's CD https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/in-peascod-time

https://youtu.be/QsB72RpBuaE?si=MwYeBzQHf9nGw118 (2:46)

My Little Sweet Darling
An anonymous Tudor lullaby (sometimes attributed to William Byrd.)
The song is found in multiple sources, and may originally have been sung in “A tragedy called Oedipus,” an Elizabethan translation of a Latin play by Seneca.

Sam Brown: lute
Eleanor Cramer: soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8pcxXAtqk&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#lullaby #lutesong #lute #historicalmusic #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernmusic @earlymodern @earlymusic @histodon @histodons #histodon #histodons #16thCentury #tudor #tudors #renaissance #renaissancemusic