Solitude

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
November 14, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Reginald Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 14, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511619
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1161
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Hail, bright Cecilia, Z. 328: Tis Nature's voice

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    2. Oedipus, King of Thebes, Z. 583: Music for a while

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    3. Varii scherzi di sonate: Chiacona

      Composer: Francesco Corbetta

      Performer: Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    4. O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    5. David

      Composer: Pietro Reggio

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    6. Go, Perjured Man

      Composer: John Blow

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    7. Beauty retire

      Composer: Samuel Pepys, Cesare Morelli

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker

    8. Phoebus, God Beloved by Men

      Composer: Samuel Pepys, Cesare Morelli

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    9. The Mad Lover Suite: Aire V: Ground

      Composer: John Eccles

      Performer: Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    10. Book of Songs, Book 2: Flow my tears

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker

    11. Book of Songs, Book 2: Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker

    12. Fortune my foe, P. 62

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Brandon Acker

    13. Book of Songs, Book 3: Time stands still

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    14. Sam

      Composer: Douglas Balliett

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker

    15. Ely of July

      Composer: Douglas Balliett

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    16. Ain't You My Child

      Composer: Jonathan Woody

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    17. Barcarolle

      Composer: William Foden

      Performer: Brandon Acker

    18. Dream Faces (arr. J. Holland)

      Composer: William Marshall Hutchison

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker

    19. Juanita (arr. J. Holland)

      Composer: Caroline Norton

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett

    20. The Ship That Never Fortuned (arr. J. Holland)

      Composer: Henry Clay Work

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Brandon Acker, Douglas Balliett


After a first album (Because, Alpha 936) devoted to Afro-American spirituals that won several awards (Opus Klassik, Edison Klassiek, GRAMMY� Award nomination), the American countertenor Reginald Mobley devotes this new recording to English repertoire with a simple combination of primarily voice, lute, and viola da gamba. Solitude opens with Henry Purcell's moving 'Tis Nature's Voice and other famous Purcell melodies, sails through John Dowland's deeply melancholy waves, and also reveals the declamatory charm of the 17th-century English composers who surrounded Samuel Pepys. We then travel to America, where contemporary composers Jonathan Woody and Douglas Balliett explore "the indomitable resilience contained in the tale of a runaway slave" as told by the brilliant African-American haiku poet Crystal Simone Smith. With Brandon Acker on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar and Douglas Balliett on viola da gamba and double bass, Reggie completes this intimate journey with songs arranged in the 19th century by the black American guitarist, composer and abolitionist Justin Holland.