Dowland Songs Without Words

Matthew Wadsworth (lute) and Kate Bennett Wadsworth (viol) present a feast of Dowland’s most delicious lute song. The concept of a song without words is borrowed from Felix Mendelssohn, who found music to be an even more precise mode of expression than words, and, given the fluidity of melodies between sung and instrumental forms in Dowland’s time, we think that Dowland himself just might have agreed.