Early Music - J. Johnson: Lute Music / C. Wilson, S. Rumsey

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 1, 2003
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      JOHNSON
    • PERFORMER
      Christopher, Shirley, Wilson, Rumsey
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. The Delight Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    2. Galliard to the Delight Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    3. Carman's Whistle

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    4. Short Almaine

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    5. Dump

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    6. Rogero

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    7. Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    8. Piece without title (Galliard)

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    9. Omnino Galliard

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    10. Almaine

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    11. Johnson's Jewel

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    12. Quadro Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    13. Galliard

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    14. Chi passa

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    15. La Vecchia Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    16. Galliard to La Vecchia Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    17. The Marigold Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    18. Galliard

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    19. A Ground

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    20. The Flat Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    21. Galliard to the Flat Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    22. Dump

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson, Shirley Rumsey

    23. Passingmeasures Pavan

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    24. Walsingham

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson

    25. Goodnight

      Composer: John Johnson

      Performer: Christopher Wilson


"Record companies seem not, as yet, to have done very much to celebrate this year's 400th anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I, so this delightful collection of music by her favorite lutenist deserves a particularly warm welcome....Since lute-players were strongly represented in the court musical establishment, to have earned the queen's special preference was no small distinction. It is clear from this selection of pieces for one or two lutes that Johnson fully merited it...The duets, in which Christopher Wilson is joined by Shirley Rumsey, include such attractive items as the Flat Pavan, with its distinctive melancholy flavour [sic], and sets of virtuoso variations on ground basses or popular songs, whose increasingly elaborate figurations are so perfectly coordinated that it is hard to believe that there are two players involved. Both here and in the solo pieces, however, the emphasis in these crisply elegant performances is not so much on virtuoso display as on creating an atmosphere of refined and courtly intimacy." - Elizabeth Roche, Daily Telegraph, 5/17/03

"With impressively executed divisions, charming music and a lustrous over-all ambience, this recording is a tonic to those who might otherwise think that lute music pre-Dowland is all hey nonny cuteness." - Anna Picard, The Independent, April 27, 2003