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Recording News!!

Nigel North's  new recording projects are under way. Volume 1 of 4 CD's of John Dowland’s Lute Music, for Naxos,  was released this June (see below). Volumes 2 and 3 are already recorded with 4 scheduled over the next year.

The Project “Les Luthistes” for Atma Baroque (Montreal) has Volume 1 just released ( Vallet “Le Secret des Muses” – see below) and this is the first of several CDs of music by 17th Century French lutenists . The 2nd CD, due to be recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 will be music of François Dufault.

Nigel's most recent CDs

1) John Dowland "Fancyes, Dreams & Spirits" Lute Music , Volume 1

• This is the first of four volumes of lute music by the genius of the English Golden Age. John Dowland's complete Fantasies are contrasted with lighter, shorter character pieces such as "My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe" and "Mrs White's Thing".
• Naxos - 8.557586 (2006)
• Listen to Track 22:Farewell "In Nomine" (4’34”)

2) Nicolas Vallet "Le Secret des Muses"

• Lute music by the French lutenist who lived and worked in Amsterdam. Written for the 10 course lute, Vallet’s music is not only full of tuneful variety and idiomatic lute music but also has many serious contrapuntal pieces and sets of variations.
• ATMA Classique ACD2 2333 (2006)
• Listen to Track 6: Carillon de Village (2’09”)

3) "Go from my Window"

• English Renaissance Ballad Tunes for the lute by John Dowland and his Contemporaries
• Music by Dowland, Byrd, Robinson, Cutting, Batchelar, Danyel, Johnson, Collard and Anon.
• Nigel North plays 2 lutes; an 8 course Lute by Paul Thomson, Bristol, 1999 & a 9 Course Lute by Paul Thomson, Bristol 1995 both after 17th century models.
• Linn Records - CKD 176 (2003)
• Listen to Track 5: Byrd "My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home" (2' 07")
• Listen to Track 16: Collard "Go from my Window" (4' 32")

4) "A Varietie of Lute Lessons" (published by Robert Dowland, 1610)

• Music for solo lute by Dowland, Morley, Batchelar, Holborne, Ferrabosco, Huwet, Laurencini, Ballard
• Nigel North (9 course Renaissance Lute, by Paul Thomson, 1995)
• Linn Records - CKD 097 (1999)
• Listen to Track 2: John Dowland "Earl of Derby, his Galliard" (2'25")

5) Bach on the Lute Box set, Volumes 1-4

• BWV 1001-1006 and BWV 1007-1012
• in new transcriptions for the Lute by Nigel North
• Linn Records - CKD 128 (2000)
• Listen to Track 3 of Volume 2: Partita BWV 1006, "Gavotte en rondeaux" (3'18")

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