Dear Thomas, I can confirm that Jeni Melia has a really lovely voice. I have listened to the CD, and it's very nice indeed. Having folk music alongside early music is most refreshing, and knocks away the notion some of us may have, that music has to be compartmentalised (if there is such a word).
Best wishes, Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lautenliste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:34 PM Subject: new lute song CD Hi luters! I haven't seen an announcement of this on the list. So I jump into the hole and want to inform you that there is a new lute song CD out (and a very recommendable!): The Last of Old England - Jeni Melia (soprano) and Chris Goodwin (lute) "The Last of Old England" is an anthology of Elizabethan lute songs, folk songs, and song settings of lyrics by Shakespeare and other English poets. The CD contains music by elisabethian english composers like Dowland, Campion, Morley, Rosseter, Pilkington and Johnson, Folk Songs and unaccompanied Irish folk songs. There ars also some lute solo pieces on the CD. Worth mentioning is that Chris made the arrangements by himself and if you listen to the sampletrack O waly waly (2.2MB on http://www.tslaute.de/waly.mp3) you'll see what a good job he did. The thing which immediatly attracted me was apart from the very interesting and entertaining program of the CD was the voice of Jeni Melia in which I immediatly felt in love. I hope we will hear much more of that creative new duo soon (I think I really will try to make it to London in April to listen to her singing - Chris didn't mention in Lute News if he will be accompanying her but I do hope so ... if the duo sounds so charming and fresh on CD how must this sound in reality?)! If you want to order the CD: The price is �10 plus �1 p&p / US$18 (includes postage) / 16 euros (includes postage) orders can be made at http://www.jenirecords.co.uk or http://www.tslaute.de/katalog_ts.jsp Best wishes Thomas
