Flow My Tears - John Dowland

Angela Hicks: Soprano
Sam Brown: Lute
Filmed at The Voces8 centre, London
Audio: Tom Mungall
Video: Tim Vaughan
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[@magenta6754]

This is true beauty. Angela's pure, beautiful voice and the gorgeous lute playing.

[@tralfmusic]

I'm obsessed with this song and I've listened to soooo many arrangements and performances - this is hands down the most impressive one I've ever listened to. Bravo to you both!

[@euledj79]

I listened this song so many times, I really got fed up with it. But Angela has such a subtle warm timbre and unpretentious way to perform that it is a real pleasure. Thats why I like the sopranos in the Monteverdi Choir so much.

[@scottprather5645]

Very beautiful.
I can listen to this almost forever

[@martinevensen406]

Great this is real music. Glad there are young people performing that understand this. No thanks to autotune and blip blop music

[@jg5861]

I know this marvelous song by heart and heard dozens of performances, but this is so deeply touching it brings tears to my eyes (as it never did!) and it still does, even listening for the third time in a row. Yes, it's that moving. So beautifully done, with intimacy and care coming across to us in the music and even in the video. How would I not thank you after what I was offered this last few minutes? This made the world better, and without a bang. Love from Portugal.

[@1earflapping]

Truly wonderful version. I play it over and over.

[@ducdeblangis3006]

Quelle voix d'ange!

[@michaelavonpaumgartten8154]

I have always been a great lover of Dowland, especially his vocal pieces. The quality of this vocalist’s voice is striking and I am not sure exactly why. It is a modern woman’s quality of voice applied to early music which provides an interpretation that transcends time (I really don’t know how else to put it). The lute is perfectly balanced to give a devastatingly beautiful accompaniment. This gives me ideas about how to approach my own playing as a cellist.

[@dbadagna]

I agree. Custer LaRue took a similar approach with the Baltimore Consort in this recording:
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[@dbadagna]

The typical "plummy" operatic (back-of-the-throat") vocal timbre and constant wide vibrato listeners have to contend with in all classical genres probably didn't become widely used by classical singers until around the 1820s. Thank goodness there are at least a few singers who are able to sing early music with such a direct, forthright manner of voice production.

[@francoiseastman2671]

C'est toujours aussi merveilleux de vous entendre, quelle belle voix !

[@blameless_hyperborean8638]

Angela nomine, angelica voce.

[@luciocosta34]

J'adore Lachrimae, "flow my tears" avec cette voix... J'en ai la chair de poule, juste magnifique

[@rfdarsie]

Excellent performance.

[@davebradford8393]

So glad I discovered you. Your voice and style are superb. And I have always liked John Dowland's lute music.

[@vangelbeleski9539]

I will be the Most Happiest Persson on this World * When the Most People will Understand Angela Hicks & John Dowland * [ Music and Words ] *

[@Paul.Morgan]

Superb. I love your voice.

[@jaysparc]

Another wonderful performance. Thank you @Angela🙏

[@bibleventures]

Excellent piece, wonderfully sung. Thank you (And masterful lute too!)

[@ZopcsakFeri]

This one is my favourite rendition of the ones I have so far heard (many)! Others sound relatively deep that make the lyrics go incomprehensible, but this performance stays natural and easy to pick up the words. Somehow Angela has more clarity than others :)

[@thepantaleonist1]

Best version ever !

[@mattfangrecorderstudio8325]

Im gonna play this on the recorder with this voice singing guidance

[@paulchapman112]

so beautiful!

[@conanmendes3893]

Beautiful. I'm a big fan of you !!!

[@rocketsroar1]

Perfect in every way.

[@JAFRANCAJR]

Maravilhosa performance 👏⚘️

[@kinderblutsaufenderreptiloide]

👏👏👏So great! Thanks!

[@jim6929]

Beautiful

[@busload_uk]

So beautiful. Thank you.

[@joeschermann7729]

Transcendent singing.

[@katideb1107]

Gorgeous singing!

[@craigtodd8297]

Beautiful Angela.

[@Le_Trouvere]

I thought i recognised that background ;) Fantastic performance.

[@ernestoalsina5078]

Grandiosa interpretación una maravilla musical

[@georgio2]

There is perfection!

[@musicavivaserbia]

Beautiful, divine!

[@lloydmatlloyd4984]

love dowland magic mystical

[@melusine9496]

excellent!!!

[@flavionardon4000]

Che meraviglia!

[@willem6900]

Very beautiful .

[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

Thank you..

[@sunshinehurricanemix]

What i imagine angels sound like

[@mattfangrecorderstudio8325]

❤

[@SlawekM.]

Jaskier (Buttercup) is doing his job alright, he "knows all the chords"... 🙂

[@thesaucegroup1877]

Sumptuous

[@charleymendesdesousa567]

🥺

[@DadoSimicStudiostriver]

I having hard time hearing the lute well, its bit low in volume as well, other then that it sounds great, and performance of you both is on spot. I would suggest bit better mic'ing next time. :) Kind regards.

[@ali.faris.]

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

[@paulisemonger280]

Soaring.

[@ravenwynd]

This particular song is full of eroticism

[@elgrande88]

not bad

[@SempreGumby]

Dowland? *click*

[@ahvideplaneet]

Too young to understand what they're singing/playing. I'm not holding it against them. Lovely pair.

[@cookymonstr7918]

I decided not to listen to any other version.

[@migueltorello4663]

no trates de mejorar lo perfecto. no me gusta

[@StevenWatsonMusic]

Beautiful

[@yakubekartawidjaja]

Beautiful