Τρία ακόμα τραγούδια για φωνή και λαούτο του John Dowland, από τον θρυλικό Alfred Deller. O τραγουδιστής έβαλε ξανά στον χάρτη το “είδος” του κόντρα τενόρου από τη δεκαετία του 40, επαναφέροντας τον ήχο της αντρικής άλτο φωνής, καταργημένης μαζί με το φαινόμενο των καστράτων στις αρχές του 20ου αι.
Μαζί με τα τραγούδια ένα οργανικό, από το λαούτο του ακομπανίστα Robert Spencer.

Three more John Dowland’s lute songs, performed by legendary Alfred Deller. The singer put the countertenor “species” back on the map from the ’40s on, bringing back the male alto voice sound, abolished along with the practice of castrato singers in the early 1900s.
Along with the songs an instrumental, from the lute of accompanist Robert Spencer.

[00:00] If my complaints could passions move
If my complaints could passions move
Or make Love see wherein I suffer wrong:
My passions were enough to prove
That my despairs had govern’d me too long
O Love, I live and die in thee
Thy grief in my deep sighs still speaks:
Thy wounds do freshly bleed in me
My heart for thy unkindness breaks:
Yet thou dost hope when I despair
And when I hope, thou mak’st me hope in vain
Thou say’st thou canst my harms repair
Yet for redress, thou let’st me still complain
Can Love be rich, and yet I want?
Is Love my judge, and yet I am condemn’d?
Thou plenty hast, yet me dost scant:
Thou made a God, and yet thy power contemn’d
That I do live, it is thy power:
That I desire it is thy worth:
If Love doth make men’s lives too sour
Let me not love, nor live henceforth
Die shall my hopes, but not my faith
That you that of my fall may hearers be
May here despair, which truly saith
I was more true to Love than Love to me

[04:39] What if I never speed?
What if I never speed
Shall I straight yield to despair
And still on sorrow feed
That can no loss repair;
Or shall I change my love
For I find pow’r to depart
And in my reason prove
I can command my heart?
But if she will pity my desire
And my love requite
Then ever shall she live my dear delight
Come, come, come, while I have a heart to desire thee
Come, come, come, for either I will love or admire thee
Oft have I dreamed of joy
Yеt I never felt thе sweete
But tired with annoy
My griefs each other greete
Oft have I left my hope
As a wretch by fate forlorn
But Love aims at one scope
And lost will still returne
He that once loves with a true desire
Never can depart
For Cupid is the king of every heart
Come, come, come, while I have a heart to desire thee
Come, come, come, for either I will love or admire thee

[06:53] Wilt thou, Unkind! thus ‘reave me
Wilt thou, Unkind! thus ‘reave me
Of my heart and so leave me?
Farewell!
But yet, or ere I part, O Cruel
Kiss me, Sweet, my Jewel!
Farewell!
Hope by disdain grows cheerless
Fear doth love, love doth fear;
Beauty peerless
Farewell!
If no delays can move thee
Life shall die, death shall live
Still to love thee
Farewell!
Yet be thou mindful ever!
Heat from firе, fire from heat
None can sеver
Farewell!
True love cannot be changèd
Though delight from desert
Be estrangèd
Farewell!

[08:33] Katherine Darcy’s Gaillard