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Named Gramophone's One to Watch and winner of the 2022 International Handel Singing Competition, Alexander Chance makes his recording debut on Linn. Drop not, mine eyes is a recital of English lute songs that soaks up the zeitgeist of the past couple of years to create a programme full of melancholic works by Dowland, Campion, Danyel, Purcell and others. If the ever-popular Dowland was readily prone to sadness, as exemplified by the pair I saw my lady weep and Flow, my tears, or indeed In darkness let me dwell, the polymath Thomas Campion favoured a more sober style, as shown in I care not for these ladies. Thomas Ford displays his more profane side here with Fair, sweet, cruel and What then is love. When it comes to melancholy, John Danyel's Grief, keep within and Drop not, mine eyes are every bit as good as Dowland. The programme closes with Purcell, the other English Orpheus. Toby Carr provides sympathetic accompaniment on lute and theorbo. Album Tracks 1. Can she excuse my wrongs? 2. Praeludium 3. I saw my Lady weep 4. Flow, my tears 5. Captain Digorie Piper, his Galliard 6. I care not for these ladies 7. cypress curtain of the night 8. Never weather-beaten sail 9. Mignarda 10. What then is love 11. Fair, sweet, cruel 12. Pavan 13. Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband~Grief, Keep Within 14. Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband~Drop Not, Mine Eyes 15. Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband~Have All Our Passions 16. He whose desires are still abroad 17. In darkness let me dwell 18. Entrée d'Apollon 19. O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406 20. Prelude 21. Now that the sun hath veiled his light 'An Evening Hymn', Z. 193
