“O sweet Love” Byrd • Dowland Daniel Taylor Les Voix Humaines Stephen Stubbs ACD2 2207 Featured here together are two of the most briliant musical stars to have illuminated the English skies during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, whose sweet light neither time nor fashion has dulled. William Byrd and John Dowland - two Catholics in a sometimes fiercely Protestant world and each in genres brought to their epitome - succeeded a generation apart in leaving a mark on their times and enchanting the world. William Byrd (1539/40-1623)   1. Ye sacred Muses     4:12       (voix, violes / voice, viols) John Dowland (1563-1626)   2. A Fancy     2:50       (luth / lute)   3. Shall I strive with words to move?     3:12       (voix, luth / voice, lute) William Byrd   4. Fortune     4:06       (violes / viols)   5. Blame I confess     2:57       (voix, violes / voice, viols) John Dowland   6. Go From My Window     3:39       (luth / lute)   7. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find     1:14       (voix, luth / voice, lute)   8. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home     1:31       (luth / lute) William Byrd   9. Come to me grief for ever     8:12       (voix, violes et luth / voice, viols and lute) 10. The Bells     6:54       (violes / viols) 11. Ah silly Soul     3:18       (voix, violes / voice, viols) 12. The Carman's Whistle     5:16       (violes / viols) John Dowland 13. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe     1:08       (luth / lute) 14. Come again     4:25       (voix, violes et luth / voice, viols and lute) William Byrd 15. Tregian's Ground     7:50       (violes / viols) ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879