'With his pure, silky timbre and impeccable vocal line, Chance captures the sensual, melancholic and tender character of these songs quite perfectly.'
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Drop not, Mine Eyes
Drop not, Mine Eyes
Artist
Toby Carr
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Classical
Code
CKD 711
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- 6 Ayres for Four Voices: No. 2, Can She excuse My Wrongs?Composer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
6 Ayres for Four Voices: No. 2, Can She excuse My Wrongs?
02:56$2.30 - PraeludiumComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Toby Carr
Praeludium
01:25$2.30 - The Second Book of Songes: No. 1, I Saw My Lady WeepComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
The Second Book of Songes: No. 1, I Saw My Lady Weep
05:41$2.30 - The Second Book of Songes: No. 2, Flow, My TearsComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
The Second Book of Songes: No. 2, Flow, My Tears
04:33$2.30 - Captain Digorie Piper, His GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Toby Carr
Captain Digorie Piper, His Galliard
02:21$2.30 - I Care Not for These LadiesComposer(s) Thomas CampionArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
I Care Not for These Ladies
02:36$2.30 - The Cypress Curtain of the NightComposer(s) Thomas CampionArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
The Cypress Curtain of the Night
03:43$2.30 - Never Weather-Beaten SailComposer(s) Thomas CampionArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
Never Weather-Beaten Sail
02:16$2.30 - What Then Is LoveComposer(s) Thomas FordArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
What Then Is Love
03:41$2.30 - Fair, Sweet, CruelComposer(s) Thomas FordArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
Fair, Sweet, Cruel
02:00$2.30 - Mrs. M. E. Her Funeral Tears for the Death of Her Husband: I. Grief, Keep WithinComposer(s) John DanyelArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
Mrs. M. E. Her Funeral Tears for the Death of Her Husband: I. Grief, Keep Within
02:46$2.30 - Mrs. M. E. Her Funeral Tears for the Death of Her Husband: II. Drop Not, Mine EyesComposer(s) John DanyelArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
Mrs. M. E. Her Funeral Tears for the Death of Her Husband: II. Drop Not, Mine Eyes
02:40$2.30 - Mrs. M. E. Her Funeral Tears for the Death of Her Husband: III. Have All Our PassionsComposer(s) John DanyelArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
Mrs. M. E. Her Funeral Tears for the Death of Her Husband: III. Have All Our Passions
02:55$2.30 - He Whose Desires Are Still AbroadComposer(s) John DanyelArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
He Whose Desires Are Still Abroad
02:15$2.30 - In Darkness Let Me DwellComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
In Darkness Let Me Dwell
04:04$2.30 - Entrée d’Apollon (After Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Le triomphe de l'amour")Composer(s) Robert de ViséeArtist(s) Toby Carr
Entrée d’Apollon (After Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Le triomphe de l'amour")
02:13$2.30 - O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice!, Z. 406Composer(s) Henry PurcellArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice!, Z. 406
05:19$2.30 - PreludeComposer(s) Robert de ViséeArtist(s) Toby Carr
Prelude
00:53$2.30 - Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light, Z. 193Composer(s) Henry PurcellArtist(s) Toby Carr Alexander Chance
Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light, Z. 193
04:45$2.30
Total running time: 66 minutes.
Album information
Named Gramophone’s One to Watch and winner of the 2022 International Handel Singing Competition, Alexander Chance makes his recording debut on Linn.
Drop not, mine eyes is a recital of English lute songs that soaks up the zeitgeist of the past couple of years to create a programme full of melancholic works by Dowland, Campion, Danyel, Purcell and others. If the ever-popular Dowland was readily prone to sadness, as exemplified by the pair I saw my lady weep and Flow, my tears, or indeed In darkness let me dwell, the polymath Thomas Campion favoured a more sober style, as shown in I care not for these ladies. Thomas Ford displays his more profane side here with Fair, sweet, cruel and What then is love. When it comes to melancholy, John Danyel’s Grief, keep within and Drop not, mine eyes are every bit as good as Dowland. The programme closes with Purcell, the other English Orpheus.
Toby Carr provides sympathetic accompaniment on lute and theorbo.
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Reviews
'His first solo recordings shows that Chance is one of the foremost representatives of his generation in the falsetto range.'
musica Dei donum
'I recommend this disc for its excellent performances of familiar Dowland and for its less-well-known pieces as well.'
Fanfare
'Chance is a master at articulating the declamatory word pointedness of the songs so beguilingly that the supposedly unmusical, consonant-rich English can compete effortlessly with the musical eloquence, even enchantment, of Italian.'
Opernwelt
Editor's Choice: 'A recording in which Chance stakes serious claim to the title of his generation’s most exciting British countertenor.'
Gramophone
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