“Semper Dowland, semper dolens” was the motto of the composer John Dowland: “Always Dowland, always sorrowful.” The phrase was aptly quoted in the program note for Tuesday night’s Boston Early Music ...

Program notes by Wm. Pinckard on container and on leaflet ([8] p.) inserted, the latter including also the texts of the vocal works. Contains selections from the Songs, or airs, books 1-3, The ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Listeners in Birmingham longing for music of the distant past have had to rely mostly on touring groups in recent years. But UAB's is offering hope, thanks to a faculty ...

The pleasant yet intense lute music of 17th century England shapes the body of the most delicate experiment in Sting's musical life. In the songs of John Dowland, he has found an Elizabethan precedent ...

In this week’s Sound Advice Capital Public Radio’s classical morning host Kent Teeters shares new recordings featuring music for winds by Richard Strauss, orchestral music by Dvorák, piano works by ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...