Mike Fentross won the Van Wassenaer Competition in Amsterdam in 1994 with violinist Helene Schmitt.
Performer Biography
Mike Fentross, the lutenist on this album, is a professor of lute and basso continuo at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
Performer Biography
Mike Fentross founded the Baroque orchestra La Sfera Armoniosa in 2006.
Recording & Production
The lute used for this recording is a seven-course lute made by Sebastián Núñez in 2004, modeled after a Dieffopruchaer 1550 instrument.
Album & Artwork
The album's cover art features an image from the Thistlethwaite manuscript, held at the Edinburgh University Library.
Composer Biography
John Dowland, a composer, performer, and teacher, was active professionally for nearly forty years, and the canon of his collected lute works numbers exactly one hundred pieces.
Historical Context
Renewed interest in English lute music began in 1955 with David Lumsden's dissertation and led to the establishment of the Lute Society in London in 1956.
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