My Favorite Dowland

Now revered as a titan of the lute and one of today's pre-eminent early music scholars, it may come as a surprise that Paul O'Dette began his musical career playing electric guitar in a rock band in Columbus, Ohio. After exploring guitar transcriptions of lute music he opted to focus solely on the lute and music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In addition to a catalog of more than 120 recordings, O'Dette has garnered five GRAMMY nominations and numerous other awards. The music of John Dowland has long been one of O'Dette's specialties. This selection presents excerpts from his recording of Dowland's complete music for lute for harmonia mundi.