Le Madonne Lagrimanti Nancy Long/Tragicomedia London Independent Records LIR007 Belatedly issued, this 1988 recording was Tragicomedia's first, a cooperative labour of scholarship and love, as Nancy Long's acknowledgements indicate. This is an intense musical journey through deplorations sacred and secular, given vivid life by Nancy Long's individual voice and the support of Stephen Stubbs, Andrew Lawrence-King and Erin Headley. Warmly recommended, but because of its concentrated intensity, I found this was a CD better played not straight through; I interspersed it by listening to groups of English virginals music on LIR's simultaneous release of David Pollock's new muselar CD; buy them both!
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