John Dowland (1563-1626) was an important instrumental composer at a time when the most serious music was vocal, and he was a popular composer at a time when there was no dichotomy between popular and ...

New England country pop songwriter Bekka Dowland aims to uplift us with songs that feel close to our lives. Inspired by her experiences and ones that resonate far and wide, Dowland's heartfelt ...

Tenor John Potter, late of the Hilliard Ensemble, formed the Dowland Project in 2003 ostensibly to record the music of Medieval English composer John Dowland (1563-1626). Dowland has several modern ...

John Dowland, the Elizabethan composer, songwriter and lutenist, has been enjoying a quiet, belated renaissance. He dubbed himself “Semper Dowland, semper Dolens” – always Dowland, always doleful – ...

In “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” his crazy, magnificently tireless compendium of all that illed clinically depressed Elizabethan England, Robert Burton now and then turned his attention to America and ...

John Dowland’s 1604 Lachrimae is described on its title page as “Seven Tears figured in seven passionate pavans, with diverse other pavans, galliards and almans, set forth for lute, viols, or violins, ...

Joined by lutenist Nordberg and Brinkmann’s viola da gamba, the soprano’s homage to the Renaissance composer is captivating and persuasive John Dowland died 400 years ago this year, and we’ll be lucky ...

Dowland's In Darkness Let Me Dwell is stripped down to just a lute and vocal lending the piece an other-worldly feel.

It was a great age. In 1604, while playgoers were in thrall to the first known performance of Shakespeare’s Othello, music lovers could revel in the first publication of Dowland’s highly original ...

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movements: All ye whom loue or fortune hath betraide John Dowland, Composer Thomas Dunford, Lute Iestyn Davies, Countertenor (The) Third and Last Book of Songs or ...