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Big Boxes: Lotsa Lutes, And Tenors Too

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Album Title: Awake, Sweet Love--An Anthology of Lute Music
Reference Recording: Dowland: This one; Nigel North (Naxos; lute works only, no songs)

Works for Lute and Chitarrone by John Dowland, J.S. Bach, Alessandro Piccinini, Giovanni Kapsberger, Wolff Lauffensteiner, Johann Weichenberger, David Kellner, Silvius Leopold Weiss, François Couperin, Jacques de Saint-Luc, Ennemond Gaultier, Jacques Gallot, Joachim Hagen, Adam Falckenhagen, & Christian Scheidler; Songs by John Dowland & Henry Purcell

    Soloists: Jakob Lindberg, Mario D'Agosto, Luciano Contini, Francesca Torelli, Yavor Genov, Miguel Yisrael, Christopher Wilson, Nigel North (lute); Luciano Contini, Francesca Torelli (chitarrone); Rufus Müller (tenor); Michael Chance (countertenor); Richard Boothby (viola da gamba); Maggie Cole (harpsichord)

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