Campion: Elizabethan Songs
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Composer: Thomas CampionPerformer: Drew Minter
Performer: Paul O'Dette
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Music Label: Hmf Classical Exp.
Soundtracks:
- Beauty, Since You So Much Desire
- Love Me Or Not
- Your Fair Looks
- Never Love Unless You Can
- O Never To Be Moved
- The Cypress Curtain Of The Night
- Awake Thou Spring Of Speaking Grace
- Come, You Pretty False-Eyed Wanton
- So Tired Are All My Thoughts
- Fire, Fire
- Pined I Am, And Like To Die
- Author Of Light
- See Where She Flies
- Fair, If You Expect Admiring
- Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee?
- It Fell On A Summer's Day
- Kind Are Her Answers
- Beauty Is But A Painted Hell
- Sweet Exclude Me Not
- Are You What Your Fair Looks Express?
- I Care Not For These Ladies
- Never Weather-Beaten Sail
Free Music Notes for Campion: Elizabethan Songs
Free Music Review: a voice teacher and early music fan
Hit: 5 Stars
THE BEST OF DREW MINTER!
Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was a poet as well as a musician, and his songs definitely reflect this ability, for they could just as well be read as sung. Philip Rosseter ( his friend) states that his 118 songs were "superfluous blossomes of his deeper Studies," no doubt referring to his Latin poetry , or perhaps medicine, which was his profession.
What Campion did better than Dowland, or any other English composer of the day, was to "couple my words and notes lovingly together, which will be much for him to doe that hath not power over both." It is best to listen to them in order of priority to poem, melody and lastly singer. His melodies are simplistic and unadorned by shocking harmony designed to overpower the weight of the word itself.
T.S. Eliot was in no doubt about Campion's quality:"except for Shakespeare, the most accomplished master of rhymed lyric of his time."
The performance of these songs by Drew Minter (countertenor) accompanied by Paul O'Dette (lute) is really quite outstanding. I must say that this disc is so much better than Minter's other disc of lute songs "Sweeter Than Roses". His voice had a much clearer tone quality and he did not get 'nasal' or 'edgy' as he is prone to do. He kept his voice light and distinct with very neat diction. When he goes for a loud full sound like Michael Chance or David Daniels his voice is not pleasant to hear. But this album is very good and his emotional investment into each song was excellent. Just a very good LISTEN!!!!
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