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Solitude

10/3/2025, 20 Tracks, 1:11:27

Featuring

  • Brandon Acker
  • Doug Balliett
  • Reginald L. Mobley
  • Henry Purcell
  • Francesco Corbetta
  • Pietro Reggio
  • John Blow
  • Samuel Pepys
  • John Eccles
  • John Dowland
  • Jonathan Woody
  • William Foden
  • William Marshall Hutchison
  • Caroline Norton
  • Henry Clay Work

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Performer Biography

Brandon Acker, who plays theorbo, lute, and guitar on this album, is a widely known musician and educator with over 620,000 YouTube subscribers.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Douglas Balliett, who plays double bass and viola da gamba on this album, is a composer, instrumentalist, and poet who teaches a course on The Beatles at the Juilliard School.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Reginald Mobley is an advocate for diversity in music programming and was the first Programming Consultant for the Handel & Haydn Society.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Reginald Mobley, a Grammy-nominated American countertenor, is globally recognized for his interpretations of baroque, classical, and modern repertoire.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Reginald Mobley believes that art, especially music, is a perfect reflection of who we are and a blueprint for what we can and should be, offering a balm to heal and fill the heart.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The album features a theorbo by Klaus Jacobsen, a baroque guitar by Ivo Magherini, a 19th-century guitar by Martin de Witte, a bass lute by Ray Nurse, a double bass by Johann Georg Leeb (1799), and a viola da gamba by Charles Ogle (2011).

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

The album aims to create an intimate space, unplugged from the busy world, where emotion and meaning created by stories can reign unopposed, using a simple combination of voice, lute, and viola da gamba.

Source: Booklet

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