Thomas, Thanks for this notice. What an interesting CD by this duo! Jeni Melia has a lovely voice indeed.
Mike Detroit, Michigan USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lautenliste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:34 PM Subject: new lute song CD > Hi luters! > > I haven't seen an announcement of this on the list. So I jump into the > hole and want to inform you that there is a new lute song CD out (and a > very recommendable!): > > The Last of Old England - Jeni Melia (soprano) and Chris Goodwin (lute) > > "The Last of Old England" is an anthology of Elizabethan lute songs, > folk songs, and song settings of lyrics by Shakespeare and other English > poets. > > The CD contains music by elisabethian english composers like Dowland, > Campion, Morley, Rosseter, Pilkington and Johnson, Folk Songs and > unaccompanied Irish folk songs. > > There ars also some lute solo pieces on the CD. > > Worth mentioning is that Chris made the arrangements by himself and if > you listen to the sampletrack O waly waly (2.2MB on > http://www.tslaute.de/waly.mp3) you'll see what a good job he did. > The thing which immediatly attracted me was apart from the very > interesting and entertaining program of the CD was the voice of Jeni > Melia in which I immediatly felt in love. > > I hope we will hear much more of that creative new duo soon (I think I > really will try to make it to London in April to listen to her singing - > Chris didn't mention in Lute News if he will be accompanying her but I > do hope so ... if the duo sounds so charming and fresh on CD how must > this sound in reality?)! > > If you want to order the CD: The price is £10 plus £1 p&p / US$18 > (includes postage) / 16 euros (includes postage) > > orders can be made at > http://www.jenirecords.co.uk > or http://www.tslaute.de/katalog_ts.jsp > > > Best wishes > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Schall > Niederhofheimer Weg 3 > D-65843 Sulzbach > 06196/74519 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss > > --