Alexander Chance: Drop Not, Mine Eyes

Named Gramophone’s One to Watch and winner of the 2022 International Handel Singing Competition, Alexander Chance makes his recording debut on Linn. Drop not, mine eyes is a recital of English lute songs that soaks up the zeitgeist of the past couple of years to create a programme full of melancholic works by Dowland, Campion, Danyel, Purcell and others. If the ever-popular Dowland was readily prone to sadness, as exemplified by the pair I saw my lady weep and Flow, my tears, or indeed In darkness let me dwell, the polymath Thomas Campion favoured a more sober style, as shown in I care not for these ladies. Thomas Ford displays his more profane side here with Fair, sweet, cruel and What then is love. When it comes to melancholy, John Danyel’s Grief, keep within and Drop not, mine eyes are every bit as good as Dowland. The programme closes with Purcell, the other English Orpheus. Toby Carr provides sympathetic accompaniment on lute and theorbo

1: Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
2: Praeludium
3: I Saw My Lady Weep
4: Flow, My Tears
5: Captain Digorie Piper, His Galliard
6: I Care Not for These Ladies
7: The Cypress Curtain of the Night
8: Never Weather-beaten Sail
9: Mignarda
10: What Then Is Love
11: Fair, Sweet, Cruel
12: Pavan
13: Grief, Keep Within
14: Drop Not, Mine Eyes
15: Have All Our Passions
16: He Whose Desires Are Still Abroad
17: In Darkness Let Me Dwell
18: Entrée D'Apollon
19: O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z406
20: Prélude
21: Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light, Z193

Composer: Thomas Ford, John Danyel, Robert de Visée, Henry Purcell, John Dowland, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Thomas Campion, Jean-Baptiste Lully/Robert de Visée

Number of Discs: 1

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