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Reviews (3)
outhere-music.com
2012
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"The programme combines lute pieces by Dowland with lute songs for several voices. These songs are certainly among the most frequently recorded works of the Elizabethan era. However, the four-part polyphonic texture is generally reduced to a single voice with lute accompaniment. The approach adopted on this disc has been to realise the songs in several voices, thus reverting to the practice, widespread at the time, of an intimate 'chamber' performance of these pieces. Thus the inspired playing of Thomas Dunford is answered by exceptionally rich polyphony, with the combination of the two offering a Dowland of unprecedented colour and energy".
BBC music magazine
2013 September
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Kate Bolton
2013 September
"The readings are compellingly articulated ... Dunford's supple technique, combined with his passion for jazz, allows him to decorate and elaborate the written texts with improvisatory abandon, shedding new light on old favourites. He really plumbs the depths, too, of Dowland's melancholly 'blues' style, proving himself to be an Eric Clapton of the lute".
International record review
2013 June
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Andrew O'Connor
2013 June
"The handful of solo lute pieces are quite as well played by Dunford as one would have hoped ... Dunfor is remarkably confident and accomplished for such a young musician ... If only the same qualities were to be found in the vocal works ... Unfortunately, at least two of the four singers involved in the project are quite unsuitable for renaissance music ... beset by an ugly and intrusive near-constant vibrato ... The outstanding singer here is tenor Paul Agnew".