The First Booke of Songs or Ayres

Album by John Dowland & Rogers Covey‐Crump & Jakob Lindberg

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres is a collection of lute songs by the English composer John Dowland, published in 1597. The music exemplifies late Renaissance English lute-song style with expressive melancholy melodies, modal harmonies and intricate lute accompaniment, and it was Dowland's first published book that helped establish the English ayre repertoire.
First released: 1990

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Awake, sweet love, thou art returned
    2:47
  2. 2.
    Thinkst thou then by thy fayning?
    2:00
  3. 3.
    Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake
    3:07
  4. 4.
    Goe crystall teares
    3:00
  5. 5.
    My thoughts are wing'd with hopes
    3:19
  6. 6.
    Come heavy sleepe
    4:18
  7. 7.
    His golden locks time has to silver turnd
    4:05
  8. 8.
    Come away, come sweet love
    2:15
  9. 9.
    If my complaints could passions move
    3:28
  10. 10.
    All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed
    3:16
  11. 11.
    Who ever thinkes or hopes of love for love
    2:54
  12. 12.
    Away with these self-loving lads
    2:47
  13. 13.
    Now, O now, I needs must part
    5:09
  14. 14.
    Come again: sweet love doth now invite
    4:35
  15. 15.
    Sleep wayward thioughts
    3:34
  16. 16.
    Deare, if you change, ile never chuse againe
    2:58
  17. 17.
    Unquiet thoughts
    3:38
  18. 18.
    Would my conceit that first enforst my woe
    5:33
  19. 19.
    Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me of my heart?
    4:07
  20. 20.
    Burst forth, my teares
    4:17
  21. 21.
    Rest a while you cruell cares
    4:30

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