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American Record Guide: (03/2020) 
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Naïve
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This is a well-chosen collection of John Dowland’s lute songs, with some “old standards”, such as ‘Flow my Tears’ and ‘Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part’ mixed with lesser-known selections. Mariana Flores interprets these with a slight hint of a period pronunciation but never sacrifices clarity and intelligibility of the texts. Partly because of some transpositions of the original lute tablature to fit Flores’s voice, Smith allows himself the freedom to adapt and tastefully ornament Dowland’s original lute versions. Flores should have allowed herself some of this same freedom in her approach to Dowland’s melodies, especially in the strophic “ayres”. She adopts a rhetorical and sensitive approach to the lyrics, most notably in the last stanza of ‘Flow my Teares’ both in the way she accents “Hark” (“Hark, you shadows”) but also the hold on the word “hell” (“they that in hell, Feel not the world’s despite”).

While there are other excellent collections of Dowland’s songs (such as the recordings by Emma Kirkby, Jan/Feb 1991 & Sept/Oct 2006), the interpretive freedom heard here will, I hope, inspire others to a deeper engagement with this repertoire.

 

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