The Singing Lute
F all musical instruments, the lute is the one which has most hold upon my imagination, chiefly through Wyatt’s poem, but also because it has a beautiful name. Not until I heard Rossiter’s "What then is Love but Mourning," sung by Alfred Deller and accompanied by the lute in English Song (from 3YC), had I ever registered its precise musical nature. Fortunately for me the lute lived up to my irrational conception of it, the more so as a result of Alfred Deller’s imitation of its plucked melody when he got to the "Dillo" refrain. Heddle Nash singing excerpts from the On Wenlock Edge song cycle also made pleasant listening. In fact almost the,whole evening, which really began much earlier with the London Studio Recitals of songs by Vaughan Wyjlliams, Warlock, Moeran, Rowley and later Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite, formed an excellent introduction to the work of British composers and singers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 11
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154The Singing Lute New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 11
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