The English lute song is a delicate flower, which doesn’t thrive in a modern climate. Its sentiments are about as refined and artificial as they could be, and the more flirty songs can seem arch for ...

And there’s no one better to hear play it than Hopkinson Smith, for decades now the greatest exponent of this instrument and repertoire. The Elizabethan era was a golden age for English music, which ...

The Award-winning countertenor on his debut album of Dowland, Danyel, Campion and others Countertenor Alexander Chance – last year's winner of the International Handel Singing Competition – joins ...