Mieneke Van Der Velden - Musickes Sweetest Joyes (2004)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 69:29 minutes | PDF Booklet | 4,06 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | PDF Booklet | 1,81 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | PDF Booklet | 1,52 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Channel Classics # CCS SA 21204
Don't be put off by the precious title; this is a delightful collection of 17th-century English music built around the delicate viola da gamba skills of the Dutch virtuoso Mieneke van der Velden. Mostly oozing a delicious melancholy, but occasionally boasting a spring in its step, here is the best of such composers as John Dowland, Matthew Locke and William Corkine, with songs from Tobias Hume and Nicholas Lanier. Exquisitely played, with as much devotion to detail as technical mastery, here is period music to beguile many a modern moodswing.