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The Lost Art of Wooing by Jeni Melia Jeni Melia : The Lost Art of Wooing.
 Elizabethan lute and folk song.

Melia and Goodwin give us a delicate paean to a subtler age on The Lost Art of Wooing, the followup to their highly successful Last of Old England. Elizabethan England produced some of the most beautiful love songs ever written, and Melia's finespun soprano makes them sound especially lovely, as does the trio's preference for a natural, straightforward recording style. Together, they effortlessly rekindle a culture that was in love with love...one in which serenades were so common that city ordinances had to be passed banning singing beneath windows.
Songs:

1. No More Shall Meads (Nicholas Lanier)
2. Thou Pretty Bird (John Danyel)
3. The Lowest Trees Have Tops (John Dowland)
4. Mrs Nichols Almain (John Dowland)
5. The Dark Is My Delight (anon the Dutch Courtesan)
6. Disdain Me Still (John Dowland)
7. Lady Winkfield's Round (anon)
8. Amarilli Mia Bella (Giulio Caccini)
9. Toccata No6 In F Major (Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger)
10. Folle E Ben (Tarquinio Merula)
11. Lady Laiton's Almain (John Dowland)
12. Come Away Come Sweet Love (John Dowland)
13. A Dream (John Dowland)
14. Shall I Come Sweet Love To Thee (Thomas Campion)
15. Away Delights (John Fletcher)
16. Lady Carey's Dump (anon)
17. Time Stands Still (John Dowland)
18. Aux Plaisirs Aux Delices (Pierre Guedron)
19. My Sweetest Lesbia (Thomas Campion)
20. The Countess Of Pembroke's Paradise (Anthony Holborne)
21. Beauty Is But A Painted Hell (Thomas Campion)
22. Mad Bess (Henry Purcell)

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Release date: 12/20/2006
Jeni Melia lives in London England

Tagged as: Classical, Renaissance, Classical Singing, Composer: Anthony Holborne, Composer: Giulio Caccini, Composer: Henry Purcell, Composer: Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger, Composer: John Danyel, Composer: John Dowland, Composer: Pierre Guedron, Composer: Tarquinio Merula, Composer: Thomas Campion, Lute

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