Guest lutenist David Walker will join soprano Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, DMA, in a faculty recital featuring the lute songs of John Dowland on Monday, Sept. 15. Hurst-Wajszczuk is associate professor ...

Centuries before emo had a name, Elizabethan lutenist and composer John Dowland was channeling his heartache and dark moods into songs of unnerving beauty and potency. With their lugubrious texts ...

“Semper Dowland, semper dolens” was the motto of the composer John Dowland: “Always Dowland, always sorrowful.” The phrase was aptly quoted in the program note for Tuesday night’s Boston Early Music ...

John Dowland (1563-1626) was an important instrumental composer at a time when the most serious music was vocal, and he was a popular composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and ...

In this week’s Sound Advice Capital Public Radio’s classical morning host Kent Teeters shares new recordings featuring music for winds by Richard Strauss, orchestral music by Dvorák, piano works by ...

John Dowland was the foremost representative of the English school of lutenist-composers, besides being a composer of songs whose harmonic effects were well ahead of their time. Two excellent new ...

Most of Dowland’s music is for his own instrument, the lute. It includes several books of solo lute works, lute songs (for one voice and lute), part-songs with lute accompaniment, and several pieces ...

Since Emma Kirkby's first recording in the late-1970s, we have known what to expect from Dowland's lute songs. Some fine discs have followed, but not until Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny's new ...

Nobody did melancholy like John Dowland. This disc, of two hugely different yet complementary works, is dominated by his Lachrymae, published in 1604. All seven movements – or “seaven teares” – follow ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...