Semper Dowland / Fentross

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Label
Zefir Records
Release Date
May 21, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DOWLAND, JOHN
    • PERFORMER
      Mike Fentross
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 21, 2021
    • UPC
      8717774570760
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ZEF9680
    • LABEL
      Zefir Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Lachrimae, P. 15

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    2. Fancy, P. 6

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    3. Resolution, P. 13

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    4. Come away, P. 60

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    5. A Fancy No. 5

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    6. Farewell, P. 4

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    7. A Dream, P. 75

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    8. A Fantasie, P. 1

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    9. The Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P. 42, "Can she excuse"

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    10. Forlorn Hope, P. 2

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    11. Fortune my foe, P. 62

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    12. Lord Strange's March, P. 65

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    13. Mrs. Vaux Galliard, P. 32

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    14. Mrs. White's Nothing, P. 56

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    15. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, P. 54

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    16. The Right Honourable the Lady Clifton's Spirit, P. 45

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    17. Mrs. Winter's Jump, P. 55

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross

    18. Semper Dowland semper dolens, P. 9

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Mike Fentross


In Dowland’s words: “ingenuous profession of Musicke, which from my childhoode I have ever aymed at,... the better to attain so excellent a science”. Mike Fentross achieves this “divine science of musicke” by wooing his audience by “speaking harmony” on his sweet lute. His art entwines harmony and poetry, albeit often a melancholic art, which is then framed by the proportions of rhythm. His art teaches, stirs and delights the heart and soul of his honorable listeners in profound ways. Mike Fentross first studied with Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, then with Nigel North and José Miguel Moreno. He has built a solid reputation as a “continuist”, playing in renowned orchestras like Les Arts Florissants, and is much in demand in his country as well as abroad. He plays and records regularly with great European ensembles such as Capriccio Stravagante, Les Arts Florissants, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Harp Consort, the New London Consort and Al Ayre Espanol. In 1991 he founded La Sfera Armoniosa, a group devoted to the performance of 17th-century music. Since 1996 Mike Fentross is guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.