Christopher Morrongiello Plays Lachrimae by Dowland

Christopher Morrongiello performs Lachrimae (ca. 1590s) by John Dowland (1563–1626), Cambridge University Library manuscript DD.2.11. Filmed in the Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d’Urfé at The Metropolitan Museum of Art via their YouTube Channel. Great performance of one of Dowland’s most intimate works and on a period lute and manuscript. I’m not sure that Dowland dabbled with that many strings but it’s still wonderful!

Featured Instrument: Attributed to Wendelin Tieffenbrucker (German, active 1570–1610). Lute, late 16th century. Padua, Italy. Yew, spruce, ebony, maple. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Freedman, by exchange, 1989 (1989.13). See more info and pictures of this lute at The Met’s website. They also have plenty of guitars in the Met as well.

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