voc, b, 1563-1626 GB, London
Singer / Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Earl Of Essex Galliard
John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" (the basis of Benjamin Britten's 1963 composition for guitar solo, Nocturnal after John Dowland), "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and with the 20th century's Early music revival has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Lachrimæ | John Dowland - Nigel North, Les Voix Humaines | 2018 | Album |
Guitar Recital | Xavier Jara, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, François Couperin, John Dowland, Alan Rawsthorne, Dušan Bogdanović, Sérgio Assad, Jeremy D. Collins | 2017 | Album |
Lute Songs | John Dowland, Damien Guillon, Eric Bellocq | 2017 | Album |
Mad Dog | Hopkinson Smith, Anthony Holborne, John Johnson, William Byrd, John Dowland | 2017 | Album |
Late Night Lute | Matthew Wadsworth, John Dowland, Philip Rosseter, Robert Johnson, Stephen Goss, Alessandro Piccinini, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger | 2017 | Album |
Lachrimae Or Seven Tears | Phantasm, John Dowland, Elizabeth Kenny | 2016 | Album |
Tell Me True Love | Joel Frederiksen, John Dowland, Ensemble Phoenix Munich | 2016 | Album |
Dowland: Songs For Soprano And Guitar | John Dowland, Siphiwe McKenzie-Edelmann, Adriano Sebastiani, Riccardo Bini | 2016 | Album |
Pavanes Et Gaillardes - Lachrimae | John Dowland, Thurston Dart | 2016 | Album |
Songs Of Sundrie Natures | John Dowland - William Byrd - The Hilliard Ensemble | 2016 | Album |
The First Booke Of Songs | John Dowland, Noël Akchoté | 2015 | Album |
My Favorite Dowland | Paul O'Dette, John Dowland | 2014 | Album |
Dowland - A Game of Mirrors | David Chevallier, John Dowland | 2014 | Album |
The Art of Melancholy | Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford, John Dowland | 2014 | Album |
Shadows | John Dowland, Sarah Maria Sun, Jochen Feucht, Friedemann Wuttke, Werner Matzke | 2014 | Album |
Lacrimae Or Seaven Tears | John Dowland - Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka | 2013 | Album |
Lachrimæ | John Dowland - Thomas Dunford, Ruby Hughes, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Paul Agnew, Alain Buet | 2013 | Album |
The Second Booke Of Songs Or Ayres (1600) | John Dowland, The Schoole Of Night, Maria Skiba, Frank Pschichholz | 2013 | Album |
Sorrow Stay | John Dowland | 2012 | Album |
Tunes Of Sad Despaire | John Dowland, Dominique Visse | 2012 | Album |
To Touch To Kiss To Die - English Songs | Valer Barna-Sabadus, Henry Purcell, Nicola Matteis, John Dowland | 2012 | Album |
Blisserful Kisses | John Dowland, Hanna Thyssen, Susanne Peuker, Fortune's Musicke | 2011 | Album |
The Best of Dowland | John Dowland | 2009 | Compil. |
Clear Or Cloudy | John Dowland | 2009 | Album |
Complete Lute Music | John Dowland, Nigel North | 2009 | Album |
Lute Songs / Noctural | John Dowland, Benjamin Britten / Mark Padmore, Elizabeth Kenny, Craig Ogden | 2008 | Album |
English Part Songs & Lute Songs | Henry Purcell • Thomas Ravenscroft • John Dowland • Thomas Campion − Pro Cantione Antiqua | 2008 | Album |
In Darkness Let Me Dwell | John Dowland, Dorothee Mields, Hille Perl, Lee Santana | 2008 | Album |
Equivoci | Maurizio Grandinetti • John Cage E John Dowland | 2008 | Album |
Variations Britten | Benjamin Britten - Henry Purcell - John Dowland - William Byrd - Ensemble Vocal Variations conducted by Sylvie Ponsot | 2008 | Album |
Complete Lute Music | John Dowland, Jakob Lindberg | 2008 | Album |
Lute Songs & Ayres: Elizabeth & Essex Songs | John Dowland, Kristine Hurst, Ben Cohen | 2007 | Album |
John Dowland: The Collected Works | John Dowland, The Consort Of Musicke | 2007 | Album |
Lute Music, Vol. 3 - Pavans, Galliards And Almains | John Dowland & Nigel North | 2007 | Album |
The John Dowland Collection | John Dowland | 2007 | Compil. |
Lute Music ● 4 - The Queen's Galliard | John Dowland, Nigel North | 2007 | Album |
Lute Music, Vol. 1 - Fancyes, Dreams And Spirits | John Dowland & Nigel North | 2006 | Album |
Lute Music, Vol. 2 - Dowland's Tears | John Dowland & Nigel North | 2006 | Album |
A Dream | John Dowland - Hopkinson Smith | 2005 | Album |
Orfeo Fantasia | Claudio Monteverdi, Tobias Hume, Pierre Guédron, Giulio Caccini, Giovanni Picchi, Sigismondo D'India, John Dowland, Montreal Baroque | 2005 | Album |
Honey From The Hive | John Dowland | 2005 | Album |
Lute Songs | John Dowland • Robert Jones • Emma Kirkby • Anthony Rooley | 2004 | Compil. |
Dowland: Ayres | John Dowland, Gérard Lesne, Ensemble Orlando Gibbons | 2004 | Album |
Lachrimae | John Dowland, Norsk Barokkorkester | 2003 | Album |
Pieces For The Viols | Jordi Savall - Henry Purcell / John Dowland / Tobias Hume / Matthew Locke / Christopher Tye | 2003 | Compil. |
Another's Fandango | Oren Fader, John Dowland, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dušan Bogdanović, Kaspar Joseph Mertz, John Anthony Lennon, Joaquín Rodrigo | 2003 | Album |
Come Away, Come Sweet Love | John Dowland | 2002 | Album |
Seaven Teares (Music Of John Dowland) | John Dowland - The King's Noyse • David Douglass • Paul O'Dette | 2002 | Album |
Mister Dowland's Midnight | John Dowland - Christoph Denoth | 2001 | Album |
Fairest Isle | Barbara Bonney, Henry Purcell • John Dowland • William Byrd • Thomas Campion | 2001 | Album |
The World Of English Ayres And Madrigals | John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, John Wilbye, Thomas Morley - The Consort Of Musicke, Anthony Rooley | 2001 | Compil. |
Spirit Of Shakespeare | Hans Werner Henze - John Dowland - Stephan Stiens | 2000 | Album |
Musik Der Renaissance | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina • William Byrd • Guillaume Dufay • John Dunstable • Thomas Morley • John Dowland | 1999 | Compil. |
Treasures From My Minde (Songs And Instrumental Pieces) | John Dowland, Virelai | 1999 | Album |
Earth, Water, Air & Fire: A New Look At John Dowland And Friends | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke / Anthony Rooley | 1999 | Album |
In Darkness Let Me Dwell | John Dowland | 1999 | Album |
Goe Nightly Cares | John Dowland · William Byrd - Fretwork | 1999 | Compil. |
Tears Of The Muse | John Dowland / Daniel Taylor / Les Voix Humaines / Andreas Martin | 1998 | Album |
Œuvres Pour Luth/Lute Works | John Dowland - Paul O'Dette | 1998 | Album |
"Sweet Stay Awhile" (Songs And Lute Pieces By John Dowland) | John Dowland - Charles Daniels, David Miller | 1998 | Album |
Flow My Tears And Other Lute Songs | John Dowland - Steven Rickards, Dorothy Linell | 1997 | Album |
Complete Lute Works, Volumes 1 - 5 | John Dowland / Paul O'Dette | 1997 | Compil. |
Consort Music And Songs | John Dowland - Rose Consort Of Viols | 1997 | Album |
Selected Lute Music | John Dowland - Jakob Lindberg | 1996 | Album |
Compete Lute Works, Vol. 4 | John Dowland, Paul O'Dette | 1996 | Album |
Early Music From The Middle Ages To Dowland And Purcell | Anonymous, Wibers Kaukesel, Gace Brulé, Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, John Dowland, Henry Purcell | 1996 | Album |
Complete Lute Works, Vol. 2 | John Dowland, Paul O'Dette | 1996 | Album |
Complete Lute Works, Vol.3 | John Dowland, Paul O'Dette | 1996 | Album |
Consort Music For Viols | William Byrd, John Dowland, William Lawes, Fretwork, Christopher Wilson, Catherine Bott | 1996 | Compil. |
Compete Lute Works, Vol. 5 | John Dowland, Paul O'Dette | 1996 | Album |
Inoubliable Alfred Deller. A Portrait | Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken, William Christie, David Munrow, Richard Lee, Desmond Dupré, Robert Elliott, Robert Spencer, The Consort Of Six, Henry Purcell, John Dowland | 1995 | Album |
John Harle's Saxophone Songbook | John Harle, John Lenehan, Sarah Leonard, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Chick Corea, John Dowland, Guillaume de Machaut, Sergei Prokofiev, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Nyman | 1995 | Album |
Complete Lute Works, Vol. 1 | John Dowland, Paul O'Dette | 1995 | Album |
Flow My Tears | John Dowland | 1995 | Album |
1st Book Of Ayres | John Dowland, John Elwes, Matthias Spaeter | 1994 | Album |
Lute Songs | John Dowland, Russell Oberlin | 1994 | Album |
Lachrimae (1604) | John Dowland, Fretwork | 1993 | Compil. |
Werke Für Gitarre (= Works For Guitar = Œuvres Pour Guitare) | John Dowland · Fernando Sor · Agustín Barrios Mangoré · Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar - Göran Söllscher | 1993 | Compil. |
Lachrimae (1604) | John Dowland, Fretwork | 1993 | Compil. |
Lachrimae | John Dowland, The Parley Of Instruments | 1993 | Album |
The First Booke Of Songes | John Dowland | 1993 | Album |
Music For Viols | John Dowland • William Byrd • William Lawes, Fretwork | 1992 | Compil. |
English String Festival | John Dowland, Sir Edward Elgar, Frank Bridge, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Adrian Leaper, Capella Istropolitana | 1990 | Album |
Goe Nightly Cares (Dances From John Dowland's Lachrimae (1604) Consort Music And Songs By William Byrd) | John Dowland, William Byrd / Fretwork, Michael Chance, Christopher Wilson | 1990 | Album |
Songs & Ayres | John Dowland | 1990 | Compil. |
Lute Songs Vol. II · Come, Heavy Sleep | John Dowland, Alfred Deller, Robert Spencer | 1989 | Album |
Two Loves: A Sequence Of Poetry And Music By William Shakespeare And John Dowland | William Shakespeare, John Dowland | 1989 | Album |
Dowland Ayres | John Dowland, The Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier | 1989 | Album |
Classics For Guitar | John Dowland / Luis De Milán / Luis de Narváez / Fernando Carulli / Matteo Carcassi / Mauro Giuliani / Fernando Sor / Johann Sebastian Bach / Francisco Tárrega / Niccolò Paganini / Timothy Walker | 1989 | Album |
Lachrimae Or Seven Teares | John Dowland / Hespèrion XX | 1988 | Album |
Lachrimae / Ricercari | John Dowland / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Consortium Violae | 1988 | Album |
Songs For Tenor And Lute | John Dowland, Nigel Rogers, Paul O'Dette | 1988 | Album |
Heart's Ease (Music For Viol Consort From The Late Tudor And Early Stuart Age) | Anthony Holborne, William Byrd, John Dowland, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, William Lawes, Alfonso Ferrabosco / Fretwork | 1988 | Album |
John Dowland / Songs And Ayres | John Dowland | 1987 | Album |
Dowland ∙ Philips ∙ Howett ∙ Holbourne ∙ Britten ∙ Beaser ∙ Paganini | John Dowland ∙ Peter Philips ∙ Gregory Howett ∙ Anthony Holborne ∙ Benjamin Britten ∙ Robert Beaser ∙ Niccolò Paganini - Eliot Fisk | 1986 | Album |
Lachrimae Or Seaven Teares | John Dowland, Viola-da-Gamba-Quintett Der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis | 1986 | Album |
Lachrimæ, Or Seven Teares | John Dowland, The Dowland Consort, Jakob Lindberg | 1986 | Album |
Lute Songs | John Dowland / Andrew Dalton, Yasunori Imamura | 1985 | Album |
Ayres & Lute - Lessons | John Dowland / Deller Consort / Mark Deller | 1984 | Album |
Danzas Del Renacimiento | Joan Ambrosia Dalza, Hans Neusiedler, Claude Gervaise, Pierre Phalèse, John Dowland, Pierre Attaignant, Michael Praetorius, Erasmus Widmann, Johann Hermann Schein | 1984 | Album |
Madrigali et Ayres | Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland / Monteverdi-Consort conducted by Ricardo Corréa | 1983 | Album |
Classical Guitar & Violoncello | Douglas Woodfull-Harris & Margaret Edmondson - Diego Ortiz • Marin Marais • Georg Philipp Telemann • John Dowland | 1983 | Album |
Lachrimae 1604 / Consortmusik | John Dowland, The Consort Of Musicke | 1981 | Compil. |
A Pilgrimes Solace 1612 | John Dowland / The Consort Of Musicke | 1981 | Album |
Music By John Dowland | John Dowland / The Extempore String Ensemble, George Weigand | 1981 | Album |
Fantasies And Dances For The Lute | John Dowland, Joseph Bacon | 1981 | Album |
Agustin Barrios, John Dowland, Manuel Ponce | Göran Söllscher, Agustín Barrios Mangoré, John Dowland, Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar | 1980 | Album |
Complete Lute Music | John Dowland | 1980 | Album |
Lautenwerke | John Dowland | 1980 | Album |
Keyboard Transcriptions | John Dowland - Colin Tilney | 1979 | Album |
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations 1597, Psalmes & Sacred Songs | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke | 1979 | Album |
A Miscellany | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke | 1979 | Album |
Lute Songs / Lute Solos / Consort Music | John Dowland • Alfred Deller • Robert Spencer, The Consort Of Musicke | 1978 | Album |
Third Booke Of Songs 1603 | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke | 1977 | Album |
Fantasies And Dances For The Lute | Joseph Bacon, John Dowland | 1977 | Album |
Bookes Of Songs (1597 • 1600 • 1603) | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke, Anthony Rooley | 1977 | Compil. |
Second Booke Of Songs 1600 | John Dowland, The Consort Of Musicke | 1977 | Album |
Ayres And Lute-Lessons | John Dowland | 1977 | Album |
Consort Music | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke | 1977 | Album |
John Dowland (1563-1626) | John Dowland - Musica Aurea | 1976 | Album |
First Booke Of Songes 1597 | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke | 1976 | Album |
Lachrimae 1604 | John Dowland - The Consort Of Musicke | 1976 | Album |
Lute Musik Of John Dowland | John Dowland, Julian Bream | 1976 | Album |
Flûtes À Bec, Luth Et Guitare | Johann Sebastian Bach • Georg Friedrich Händel • Georg Philipp Telemann • John Dowland • Jacob Jan Van Eyck – René Clemencic, András Kecskés | 1975 | Album |
Flûte Et Harpe | Duo Flûte Et Harpe De Paris - Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, John Dowland, Louis Durey, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier De Saint-Georges, Leonardo Vinci, Jacques Ibert, André Jolivet | 1975 | Album |
Musik Aus Der Zeit Elisabeth I. | Thomas Morley · Giles Farnaby · William Byrd · John Dowland · John Bull | 1974 | Compil. |
Musique Elisabethaine | Betho Davezac, Daniel Bacheler, Baruch Bulman, Francis Cutting, John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley | 1974 | Album |
Musique Elisabethaine | Betho Davezac, Daniel Bacheler, Baruch Bulman, Francis Cutting, John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley | 1973 | Album |
Musiche Per Liuto | Guy Robert, John Dowland, Francesco Canova da Milano, Robert Ballard, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss | 1972 | Compil. |
Kissing, Drinking And Insect Songs | Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Josquin Des Prés, Roland de Lassus, Carlo Gesualdo, John Dowland, John Farmer, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley, William Lawes, Juan Ponçe, The Sine Nomine Singers, Harry Saltzman | 1972 | Album |
Music Of John Dowland | John Dowland, Elizabethan Concert Of Viols | 1971 | Album |
Consortmusik Auf Originalinstrumenten | John Dowland • Henry Purcell • Thomas Simpson - Leonhardt-Consort | 1971 | Album |
Elizabethan Lute Songs | Julian Bream / Peter Pears - John Dowland • Thomas Ford • Thomas Morley • Philip Rosseter | 1970 | Album |
Metaphysical Tobacco (Songs And Dances By Dowland, East And Holborne) | John Dowland / Michael East / Anthony Holborne, Musica Reservata, Michael Morrow, The Purcell Consort Of Voices, Grayston Burgess | 1968 | Album |
La Musica Inglese Dal Quattrocento Al Primo Seicento | William Byrd, John Dowland, Thomas Tomkins | 1967 | Single |
"Awake Sweet Love" Airs & Partsongs of John Dowland | John Dowland - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré | 1966 | Album |
Loves Helicon | John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Austin Miskell, Hermann Leeb | 1966 | Album |
Treasures For Guitar | John Dowland, Luis De Milán, Ludovico Roncalli, Jan Antonín Losy, Johann Schenk, François Campion, Esaias Reusner Jr. - Siegfried Behrend | 1966 | Album |
The First Book of Ayres | John Dowland | 1966 | Album |
Music Of The 16th And 17th Centuries, Volume 4: Lute Songs | John Dowland, Russell Oberlin, Joseph Iadone | 1965 | Album |
Musique Elisabéthaine | John Dowland | 1964 | Single |
Guitariste | Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Girolamo Frescobaldi, John Dowland, Manuel De Falla, Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar, Heitor Villa-Lobos - Oscar Ghiglia | 1964 | Album |
Ausgewählte Werke von John Dowland | John Dowland | 1964 | Album |
Ayres For Four Voices | John Dowland - Golden Age Singers, Julian Bream | 1962 | Album |
The Virtuoso Guitar | Antonio Vivaldi / John Dowland / Giuseppe Torelli / Fernando Carulli - Die Wiener Solisten, Wilfried Boettcher, Karl Scheit | 1962 | Album |
Elizabethan And Jacobean Ayres, Madrigals And Dances | New York Pro Musica, Noah Greenberg - William Byrd / Orlando Gibbons / Thomas Morley / John Dowland / Thomas Campion / John Cooper / Robert Jones / John Farmer | 1959 | Album |
Ayres for Four Voices, Vol. 4 | John Dowland, Golden Age Singers | 1958 | Album |
Lachrimae | John Dowland / Philomusica Of London, Thurston Dart | 1958 | Album |
Thomas Campion: 9 Songs / John Dowland: 2 Songs / Thomas Morely: 4 Little Short Songs | Thomas Campion, John Dowland, Thomas Morley | 1957 | Album |
3 Songs / 2 Songs | John Danyel / John Dowland | 1952 | Single |
Ayres For Four Voices - Vol. 2 | John Dowland, Golden Age Singers | Album | |
Wiener Solisten | Antonio Vivaldi / John Dowland / Giuseppe Torelli / Fernando Carulli - Die Wiener Solisten • Karl Scheit | Album | |
Ayres For Four Voices - Vol. 3 | Golden Age Singers, John Dowland | Album | |
Ayres For Four Voices | John Dowland - Golden Age Singers, Julian Bream | Album | |
Music Of Love And Friendship | John Dowland, Desmond Dupré, The Saltire Music Group | Album | |
Awake, Sweet Love (English Lute Songs By Purcell And Dowland) | Henry Purcell / John Dowland - Michael Chance - Rufus Müller | Compil. | |
Altenglische Gambenmusik | John Dowland, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis | Album | |
Kassel - Am Hofe Des Landgrafen | Moritz, Landgrave Of Hesse, Christopher Demantius, John Dowland, Heinrich Schütz, Michael Praetorius | Album | |
Englische Gitarrenmusik | Francis Cutting, Daniel Bacheler, Thomas Robinson, John Dowland, Michael Camidge, John W. Duarte, John McCabe, Thea Musgrave - Siegfried Behrend | Album | |
Guitariste | Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Girolamo Frescobaldi, John Dowland, Manuel De Falla, Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar, Heitor Villa-Lobos - Oscar Ghiglia | Album | |
Am Hofe Der Königin Elisabeth I. | Thomas Morley, William Byrd, John Dowland | Album | |
Musik Für Blockflöte Und Laute Oder Gitarre | Hans-Martin Linde, Konrad Ragossnig - Johann Sebastian Bach / Georg Friedrich Händel / Georg Philipp Telemann / John Dowland / Jacob Jan Van Eyck | Album | |
Fifteen Elizabethan Songs | John Dowland - Du Bose Robertson, Suzanne Bloch | Album | |
Seven Tears Upon Silence | John Dowland, George Benjamin, Sit Fast | Album |