Elizabethan Lute Songs, Purcell’s Birthday Odes

Elizabethan Lute Songs, Purcell’s Birthday Odes

David Munrow

Henry Purcell, John Dowland, William Byrd

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Veritas X2

Countertenor James Bowman (b.1941) enjoyed a long association with early English song, an interest which bore fruit with this 1972 recording of Elizabethan lute songs, here making its first appearance on CD. Together with the lutenist Robert Spencer, Bowman arranged the programme to reflect the repe

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