Kieran White – Time Stands Still – Lute Songs By Dowland & Danyel

SOMM RECORDINGScelebrates the400th anniversaryof two Renaissance masters of the First Golden Age of English Song: John Dowland(1563-1626)andJohn Danyel(1564-1626). This recital for tenor and lute takes it’s name from Dowland’s song,Time Stands Still.The recordingfeatures BritishtenorKieran White, who was a chorister at Wells Cathedral and held a Kohn Foundation Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music.The Guardianhas praised White’s “pure, luminous tenor” andOpera Magazinehis “extraordinary emotional clarity.” He performs with long-time collaborator and friend, the Swiss French lutenistCedric Meyer, whoholds two Masters of Arts and a postgraduate certificate with a specialisation in early music. Meyer plays here on his personally handcrafted 8-course Renaissance lute, based on an extant Italian lute from 1592.Lute songs, or “ayres,” combine music and poetry to create songs that are filled with love, melancholy, and despair. John Dowland is acknowledg