Playing a golden-toned 10-course lute and using original manuscript sources or his own sensitive reconstructions, British lutenist Nigel North presents a delightful recital of dances by Robert Johnson, a contemporary of Shakespeare for whose plays he wrote songs and incidental music. Although they use the old forms of pavan, galliard, almain and fantasie, Johnson’s exquisite works tend towards the more expansive, lyrical style that would later flourish in the Baroque period. Nigel North’s critically acclaimed boxed set of Dowland’s Complete Lute Music is also available (8.504016).
NIGEL NORTH 奈杰尔·诺斯
(b 1954)
Born in London, Nigel North has been Professor of Lute at the Early Music Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington since 1999. Initially inspired into music, at the age of seven, by the early 1960s instrumental pop group The Shadows, he studied classical music through the violin and guitar, eventually discovering his real path in life, the lute, when he was fifteen. Basically self-taught on the lute, he has since 1976 developed a unique musical life which embraces activities as a teacher, accompanist, soloist, director and writer. His principal music passions apart from teaching are accompanying singers, the solo lute repertoires of Elizabethan England and late German Baroque music of Bach and Weiss.
For further information, please visit www.nigelnorth.com.
Tracks:
1. The Princes's Almain - Masque - Coranto 00:04:26
2. Pavan No. 1 in C Minor 00:05:16
3. Galliard, "My Lady Mildemay's Delight" 00:01:42
4. Pavan No. 2 in F Minor 00:07:24
5. 2 Almains 00:02:42
6. The Noble Man 00:02:52
7. The Witches' Dance 00:01:50
8. Pavan No. 3 in C Minor 00:06:54
9. 3 Almains 00:04:43
10. The Fairies' Dance 00:02:12
11. Fantasia (Fantasie) 00:03:31
12. Galliard 00:01:38
13. Almain, "Lady Strang's" 00:01:02
14. Pavan No. 4 (reconstructed by N. North) 00:03:47
15. The First, Second, and Third Dances in the Prince's Masque 00:03:49
16. 3 Almains 00:03:16
17. Satyr's Dance (reconstructed by N. North) 00:03:11