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BBC Proms Composer: Dowland with Kirsten Gibson and Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases, joined by Kirsten Gibson who picks her 5 favourite recordings by this week's Proms Composer, John Dowland.

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases, joined by Kirsten Gibson who picks her 5 favourite recordings by this week's Proms Composer, John Dowland.

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BBC Proms Composer: Dowland
Early music expert Kirsten Gibson picks her 5 essential recordings by this week's Proms Composer, John Dowland.

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Music Played

  • Arrigo Boito

    Mefistofele (Act 1 sc.2; Sono lo spirito che nega)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorenzo Viotti.
    • Sony.

  • Franz Liszt

    Le roi des aulnes (Erlkönig) - Mélodie de Schubert S.557a

    Performer: Connor Fogel.
    • Prima Facie.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Magnificat a 32 ['Vesperae', 1693] (Sonata - Gloria Patri - Amen)

    Choir: St Florian Boys' Choir. Ensemble: Ars Antiqua Austria. Conductor: Gunar Letzbor.
    • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Vesperae a 32.
    • Accent.
    • 129.

  • Théodore Akimenko

    Ange [Angel]

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Ukrainian Mixtape.
    • Platoon.
    • 106.

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae P.15

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • My favorite Dowland.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • John Dowland

    O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Anthony Rooley.
    • Dowland: Songs for His Elizabethan Patrons.
    • BIS.
    • 201.

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae (Nos. 12-15)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears.
    • Linn Records.
    • 12.

  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears [Lachrimae]

    Singer: John Potter. Performer: Stephen Stubbs. Performer: Maya Homburger. Performer: John Surman. Performer: Barry Guy.
    • In Darkness Let Me Dwell: Songs by Dowland.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 10.

  • John Dowland

    Præludium

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Dowland: Lachrimae.
    • ALPHA.
    • 1.

  • John Dowland

    Come againe sweet love doth now envite

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Singer: Reinoud Van Mechelen. Singer: Paul Agnew. Singer: Alain Buet. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Dowland: Lachrimae.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Theme and Variations (Variation 5)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Chandos.

  • Hubert Parry

    De profundis clamavi ad te Dominum (De profundis)

    Singer: Sophie Bevan. Choir: Hertfordshire Chorus. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: David Temple.
    • DE PROFUNDIS: Choral works by Parry and Elgar.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G minor Op80 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák, Stewart.
    • Canary Classics.
    • 103.

  • Record of the Week

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Requiem K.626 (Sequentia)

      Singer: Ying Fang. Singer: Emily D’Angelo. Singer: Stanislas de Barbeyrac. Singer: Michael Volle. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
      • Deutsche Grammophon.

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