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Kirkby, Emma: Musique and Sweet Poetrie - Jewels From Europe Around 1600

7/1/2007, 26 Tracks, 1:19:33

Featuring

  • Jakob Lindberg
  • Dame Emma Kirkby
  • Robert Johnson
  • Thomas Morley
  • Gregorio Huet
  • John Dowland
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger
  • Georg Schimmelpfennig
  • Heinrich Schütz
  • Michelangelo Galilei
  • Sigismondo d'India
  • Robert Ballard
  • Pierre Guédron
  • Jean-Baptiste Boësset
  • Étienne Moulinié
  • Wojciech Długoraj
  • John Danyel

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Performer Biography

Jakob Lindberg, the lutenist on this album, developed his initial passion for music through The Beatles.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The lute used on this recording, made by Sixtus Rauwolf around 1590, is believed to be the oldest playable lute with its original soundboard.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Jakob Lindberg was the first lutenist to record the complete solo lute music by John Dowland, a prominent English lutenist and composer featured on this album.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This Hybrid SACD recording was made in November 2005 at Länna Church, Sweden, and features 5.0 surround sound.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album's front cover features 'Woman with a Lute' by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, an oil on canvas from the early 1660s.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Travel in Europe around 1600 was dangerous; composers like Monteverdi and John Bull were robbed by highwaymen or attacked by pirates.

Source: Booklet

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