Guest lutenist David Walker will join soprano Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, DMA, in a faculty recital featuring the lute songs of John Dowland on Monday, Sept. 15. Hurst-Wajszczuk is associate professor ...

“Semper Dowland, semper dolens” was the motto of the composer John Dowland: “Always Dowland, always sorrowful.” The phrase was aptly quoted in the program note for Tuesday night’s Boston Early Music ...

Since Emma Kirkby's first recording in the late-1970s, we have known what to expect from Dowland's lute songs. Some fine discs have followed, but not until Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny's new ...

John Dowland was the foremost representative of the English school of lutenist-composers, besides being a composer of songs whose harmonic effects were well ahead of their time. Two excellent new ...

In this week’s Sound Advice Capital Public Radio’s classical morning host Kent Teeters shares new recordings featuring music for winds by Richard Strauss, orchestral music by Dvorák, piano works by ...

Sniggers were stifled when he accompanied his wife's yoga lecture plucking serenely on the sitar and his tantric sex sessions have become legendary. Now Sting has immersed himself in an even more ...

Nobody did melancholy like John Dowland. This disc, of two hugely different yet complementary works, is dominated by his Lachrymae, published in 1604. All seven movements – or “seaven teares” – follow ...

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