Robin - John Dowland (1563–1626)

This wonderful variation or division piece by John Dowland is based on an English popular tune from the Renaissance: "My Robin is to the greenwood gone" or "Bonny Sweet Robin". Dowland takes it much further and creates beautiful virtuosic variations. While his settings of other songs exist in several parts, his variations on Robin only exist in lute tablature, from which our ensemble Musickes Delight arranged it for three instruments.

Throughout the Renaissance, many composers composed divisions based on the original song, which can be found twice in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and twice in William Ballet's lute book, as well as the Pickering Lute book, Anthony Holborne's Cittharn Schoole (1597), and Thomas Robinson's Schoole of Musicke (1603), apart from John Dowland's setting.

MUSICKES DELIGHT
Lobke Sprenkeling - ganassi g-alto recorder
Óscar Gallego - viola da gamba
Pedro Jesús Gómez - archlute

Musickes Delight is an ensemble dedicated to the interpretation of music mainly focussing on English and French Renaissance and Baroque music, and was founded in Madrid. In its combination of recorder/voice, viola da gamba and archlute, its members are musicians with extensive training and experience in the field of Early Music trained at European conservatories. Musickes Delight's programs are based on a main historical and musical idea, which serves as a guiding and integrating thread, making the entire concert a unit. The result is an entertaining and informative performance that maintains maximum respect for the quality of this peculiar repertoire.

Recorded in Madrid, June 2021.

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