Dowland: Whose Heavenly Touch: - John Dowland [CD]

This recording, devoted to Dowland, seems to open a door onto a secret garden, one tended and cultivated by two artists already well known for opera and song recitals that distil the chamber music principle into its most intimate essence of expressive sound: soprano Mariana Flores and lutenist Hopkinson Smith. Here they give us a Dowland programme straight from the heart, drawing on five of the composer's volumes of 'Songs Or Ayres' printed in London between 1597 and 1612, laying bare Dowland's ecstatic and tortured soul as it oscillates between all the different states of melancholy love.

Disc 1
1. Flow, My Tears (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
2. Come Away, Come Sweet Love (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
3. O Sweet Woods (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
4. I Saw My Lady Weep (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
5. Can She Excuse My Wrongs (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
6. All Ye, Whom Love of Fortune Hath Betray'd (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
7. Mignarda (John Dowland) - Hopkinson Smith
8. Fine Knacks for Ladies (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
9. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
10. Come, Heavy Sleep (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
11. In Darkness Let Me Dwell (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
12. If My Complaints Could Passions Move (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
13. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
14. Go Crystal Tears (John Dowland) - Hopkinson Smith
15. Go Crystal Tears (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
16. Come Again! (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith
17. Sorrow, Sorrow Stay (John Dowland) - Mariana Flores/Hopkinson Smith