The First Book of Ayres

Album by John Dowland & Pro Musica Antiqua & Safford Cape

The First Book of Ayres is a collection of lute songs by English composer John Dowland, published in 1597. It features melancholic, polyphonic vocal lines with intimate lute accompaniment in the late Elizabethan ayre style, marking Dowland's emergence as a major figure in solo song and helping to shape the English lute-song repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    Come away, come sweet love
    2:07
  2. 2.
    Come, heavy sleep
    2:24
  3. 3.
    Sleep, wayward thoughts
    2:13
  4. 4.
    If my complaints
    2:51
  5. 5.
    Would my conceit
    2:32
  6. 6.
    Awake, sweet love
    2:10
  7. 7.
    All ye whom love or fortune
    2:55
  8. 8.
    Now o now
    2:12
  9. 9.
    Can she excuse
    2:41
  10. 10.
    Come again
    3:47
  11. 11.
    Wilt thou unkind
    2:00
  12. 12.
    My thoughts are winged
    2:03
  13. 13.
    Dear, if you change
    2:23
  14. 14.
    Rest awhile
    2:38
  15. 15.
    Think'st thou then
    1:55
  16. 16.
    Unquiet thoughts
    2:56
  17. 17.
    His golden locks
    1:59
  18. 18.
    Whoever thinks
    2:25
  19. 19.
    Burst forth, my tears
    2:37
  20. 20.
    Lord Chamberlain, his Galliard
    1:37
  21. 21.
    Go, crystal tears
    2:00
  22. 22.
    Away with dese self-loving lads
    2:11

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