John Dowland: songs without words

Marking the anniversary year of the death of John Dowland (c.1563-1626), Matthew Wadsworth (lute) and Kate Bennett Wadsworth (viol) present a feast of Dowlands most delicious lute songs.

The concept of a song without words is borrowed from Felix Mendelssohn, who found music to be an even more precise mode of expression than words, and, given the fluidity of melodies between sung and instrumental forms in Dowland's time, we think that Dowland himself just might have agreed.