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Found this by accident and it’s now in permanent rotation in my playlist. Beautiful performance!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Quelle finesse musicale, merci pour ce petit bijou!

Magnífica interpretación de la obra de Dowland, el sonido del instrumento es perfecto el intérprete fantástico.

1 If my complaints could passions move, Or make Love see wherein I suffer wrong: My passions were enough to prove, That my despairs had govern'd me too long. O Love, I live and die in thee, Thy grief in my deep sighs still speaks: Thy wounds do freshly bleed in me, My heart for thy unkindness breaks: Yet thou dost hope when I despair, And when I hope, thou mak'st me hope in vain. Thou say's thou canst my harms repair, Yet for redress, thou let'st me still complain. 2 Can Love be rich, and yet I want? Is Love my judge, and yet am I condemn'd? Thou plenty hast, yet me dost scant: Thou made a god, and yet thy pow'r contemn'd. That I do live, it is thy pow'r: That I desire it is thy worth: If Love doth make men's lives too sour, Let me not love, nor live henceforth. Die shall my hopes, but not my faith, That you that of my fall may hearers be May here despair, which truly saith, I was more true to Love than Love to me.

SUPERB SOUND !

Fantastic!

Magnificent this beautiful and moving work of art❤

Mucho gusto, mucha sensibilidad

Outstanding!

What a treat! This style of really old, profane, folk music is one which speaks directly to me. It might seem very simple and raw, almost like a sung fairy tale or a lullaby, but it hides a subtle complexity - which you both bring forth with your usual sensitiveness, of course - with its sudden harmonic shifts that make it feel somewhat ‘liminal’ or between spaces. It’s almost like changing from one world to another with each turn of phrase. I also can’t help but feel a certain kind of irony or a ‘hidden’ message in the music itself, some kind of moral which the text sort of hints at, but it’s all so subtle and mysterious. Very interesting and ‘tense’, in a way, despite the apparent, deceiving tranquility. Sanna showcases her outstanding performing abilities once again, without prejudice to her beautiful voice - she sounds gorgeous and authentic as always! The range of emotion, from breeze to gale, is just astounding. A round trip of the voice and the soul. Tuomas’ understanding of this piece - of every piece he performs, actually - is on point as usual, demonstrating how, on many occasions, less is more. Neither of them outshines the other, which is also very important in building the required tone. I just can't say enough good things about this ^^. And the imagery chosen for the video is so appropriate on so many levels! Ophelia impersonating Ophelia! Some of the images are truly breathtaking, but how could they not be? The sunlight, the wind, the greenery, the two of you, the flowing river… Everything very pastoral and pre-Raphaelite. Also, I seem to see a recurrent theme of water and death lately? Thanks again for this beautiful gift. Lots of love from this side of the world!

Very nice playing and recording- the church is empty- why not play for an audience?

What a beautiful day Ophelia has posted a new song What a beautiful day We are blessed with ears to hear it

Wonderful!

Do keep doing these !

How utterly BEAUTIFUL....

Très belle version de cette chanson. Très belle voix, quasiment une voix d'alto ou contralto .

It is a glorious thing to see this kind of mastery and perfection on so very difficult an instrument. Tuomas Kourula is inhabited by the spirit of John Downland and is able to summon him at will... One can sense one's soul being healed by this performance...

What a stunning sound!

Beautiful… Thank you.

Wonderful rendition. Thanks for sharing. 🌷

You did a nice job on this arrangement! I've only ever heard it on keyboard and have always loved it. Thanks!

To think that such noble, glorious music was common entertainment in the days of Dowland! THANK YOU for these beautiful productions...

this interpretation has certain swing quality, as if it's a blues... most renditions I've heard played the introductory notes very equal. I'd love to have a score for classical guitar.

I love your work and your painterly style thanks.

Just found your music, and I'm sharing it with some friends. Thank you.

Lovely

In terms of historical correctness, this is a ridiculous performance. 1) In the Renaissance NOBODY would sing like that - oper singing technique was developed much later. 2) That vibrato is out of context. In early music, vibrato is JUST an ornamentation. 3) This is a very simple song about a peddler, not Verdi's Lady Macbeth.

Minha nossa!!! Que interpretação sensível e uma sonoridade extraordinária nessa pequena igreja! Parabéns Thomas.

Excellent set of videos with an modern urban switch!

What an interesting idea for the video! Excellent performance as well!

Beautifully done in every aspect

Absolutely beautiful!!

keep them coming !!!

I love this so much! What a beautiful video!

Sitting here in New York City and enjoy listening to you wonderful version of John Downland's timeless music. Thank you so much for your great work, best wishes to the two of you from "the other side of the globe"

What a beauty!

Next vid maybe swap costumes

Great performance (as usual) and visuals that totally capture the incongruity of loving this fancy old music in modern urban settings. Love it.

STOP! I’m singing “Flow, my tear(e)s” on the 21st of this month! (Along with the duets “Et misericordia” and “Sound the trumpet”). You play some of my favourite pieces ever, and now the very first I will start my next concert with! These coincidences are beginning to be alarming :D Jokes aside, I find the thoughts behind this new production really interesting. Pain and sorrow are universal, finding no barriers in space or time - the only thing defining them are the quality of being alive. However, I don’t think we’ve lost the art of melancholy: we have people like you, who keep us in touch with the most sensitive and vulnerable part of ourselves. The problem is, not many people like to see themselves under that light (because, you know, “light doth but shame disclose” :P). I’m happy to listen to Sanna again, and I LOVE her rich, “meaty” and dramatic voice, so expressive! You also have a vocal range very similar to my own, and I find it really cool ^^. And what can I say about Tuomas’ strings and presence that I haven’t said a million times already? I know this is a very important piece to you, which is very evident and breaks through the screen. A true delight, if a painful one - as it should. Thanks once again for your dedication. Your art is truly inspiring, as always. Hugs!

Beautiful. Bravo!

Definitely a different and interesting take.

My tears are flowing as I watch and listen to two time travelers bring their talent to this post-modern backdrop of graffiti and smokestacks.

This is an amazing recording. The tone is warm with clarity and the reverb has a nice decay. Great playing and ornamentation.

Esta peça musical é muito importante para mim também. Traz uma carga nostálgica muito intensa, de um período da minha vida e pessoas que foram muito importantes ao conjunto do meu ser. Uma belíssima execução.

Fantastic just heavenly

Absolutely wonderful, tempo, sound and musicality at it best It melts thank you for sharing beauty

Great immortal masterpiece In the hands of a master player Thank you ❤

Semplicemente "celestiale": grazie maestro, il tuo strumento e la tua sensibilità interpretativa toccano le corde del sentimento.

Truly beautiful...

¿Cómo se llama ese instrumento?