Toby carr^alexander chance –

Drop not, mine eyes

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.

Country of Pressing	US
Artist	Toby Carr^Alexander Chance
Released	2023
Music Genre	Classical
Label	LINN RECORDS
Condition	New
UPC	691062071123
SKU	al-691062071123

1.1 Can she excuse my wrongs?
1.2 Praeludium
1.3 I saw my Lady weep
1.4 Flow, my tears
1.5 Captain Digorie Piper, his Galliard
1.6 I care not for these ladies
1.7 cypress curtain of the night
1.8 Never weather-beaten sail
1.9 Mignarda
1.10 What then is love
1.11 Fair, sweet, cruel
1.12 Pavan
1.13 Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband~Grief, Keep Within
1.14 Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband~Drop Not, Mine Eyes
1.15 Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband~Have All Our Passions
1.16 He whose desires are still abroad
1.17 In darkness let me dwell
1.18 Entrée d'Apollon
1.19 O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406
1.20 Prelude
1.21 Now that the sun hath veiled his light 'An Evening Hymn', Z. 193