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Disc 1:

1. 1. Unquiet thoughts
2. 2. Who ever thinks of hopes of love
3. 3. My thoughts are wing'd with hopes
4. 4. If my complaints could passions move
5. 5. Can she excuse my wrongs
6. 6. Now, O now, I needs must part
7. 7. Dear, if you change
8. 8. Burst forth my tears
9. 9. Go crystal tears
10. 10. Think'st thou then by thy feigning
11. 11. Come away, come sweet love
12. 12. Rest awhile, you cruel cares
13. 13. Sleep, wayward thoughts
14. 14. All ye, whom Love or Fortune hath betray'd
15. 15. Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
16. 16. Would my conceit
17. 17. Come again: sweet love doth now invite
18. 18. His golden locks
19. 19. Awake, sweet love
20. 20. Come, heavy Sleep
21. 21. Away with these self-loving lads

Disc 2:

1. 1. I saw my Lady weep
2. 2. Flow my tears
3. 3. Sorrow, stay
4. 4. Time's eldest son
5. 5. Mourn, mourn, Day is with darkness fled
6. 6. Time's eldest son
7. 7. Then sit thee down
8. 8. When others sing Venite
9. 9. Praise blindness eyes
10. 10. O sweet woods
11. 11. If floods of tears
12. 12. Fine knacks for ladies
13. 13. Now cease my wand'ring eyes
14. 14. Come ye heavy states of night
15. 15. White as lilies was her face
16. 16. Woeful heart
17. 17. A shepherd in a shade
18. 18. Faction that ever dwells
19. 19. Shall I sue
20. 20. Toss not my soul
21. 21. Clear or cloudy
22. 22. Humour say what mak'st thou here

Disc 3:

1. 1. Farewell, too fair
2. 2. Time stands still
3. 3. Behold a wonder here
4. 4. Daphne was not so chaste
5. 5. Me, me, and none but me
6. 6. When Phoebus first did Daphne love
7. 7. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
8. 8. Flow not so fast, ye fountains
9. 9. What if I never speed?
10. 10. Love stood amazed
11. 11. Lend your ears to my sorrow
12. 12. By a fountain where I lay
13. 13. O what hath overwrought
14. 14. Farewell, unkind
15. 15. Weep you no more, sad fountains
16. 16. Fie on this feigning!
17. 17. I must complain
18. 18. It was a Time when silly bees
19. 19. The lowest trees have tops
20. 20. What poor astronomers are they
21. 21. Come when I call

Disc 4:

1. 1. Disdain me still
2. 2. Sweet stay awhile
3. 3. To ask for all thy love
4. 4. Love, those beams that breed
5. 5. Shall I strive with words to move?
6. 6. Were every thought an eye
7. 7. Stay, Time, awhile thy flying
8. 8. Tell me, true Love
9. 9. Go nightly cares
10. 10. From silent night
11. 11. Lasso vita mia
12. 12. In this trembling shadow cast
13. 13. If that a sinner's sighs
14. 14. Thou mighty God
15. 15. When David's life
16. 16. When the poor cripple

Disc 5:

1. 17. Where sin sore wounding
2. 18. My heart and tongue were twins
3. 19. Up merry mates
4. 20. Welcome black Night
5. 21. Cease, cease these false sports
6. Unspecified Pavana and Galiarda
7. Can She Excuse (Tisdale Virginal Book)
8. Piper's Paven / Galliard
9. Pavana Lachrymae

Disc 6:

1. 1. The lamentation of a sinner
2. 2. Domine ne in furore
3. 3. Miserere mei Deus
4. 4. The humble suit of a sinner
5. 5. The humble complaint of a sinner
6. 6. De profundis
7. 7. Domine exaudi
8. Lachrimae Antiquae
9. Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
10. Lachrimae Gementes
11. Lachrimae Tristes
12. Lachrimae Coactae
13. Lachrimae Amantis
14. Lachrimae Verae
15. Mr John Langton's Pavan
16. Mr Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard
17. Sir John Souch his Galiard
18. Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
19. Mr Giles Hobies Galiard
20. The King of Denmark's Galiard
21. Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
22. Mr Henry Noell his Galiard
23. The Earl of Essex Galiard
24. Mr Bucton his Galliard
25. Mr George Whitehead his Almand
26. Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard
27. Mr Thomas Collier his Galiard
28. Mrs Nichols Almand

Disc 7:

1. Work(s)~Unspecified Galliard

Disc 8:

1. Lachrimae Pavan (after Dowland)
2. Can she excuse Galliard (after Dowland)
3. Captain Piper's Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland)
4. The Frog Galliard (after Dowland)
5. Dowland's First Galliard (from Cambridge manuscript part books, c. 1600)
6. Mr john Langton Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland)
7. La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland)
8. Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard (after Dowland)

Disc 9:

1. Unspecified Pavan à 4 (from Thomas Simpson: Taffel-Consort 1621)

Rating: - Lovely music
I love these CDs. This music is absolutely gorgeous. I can't stop listening to it.

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Rating: - collected works of John Dowland
This is a fine recording of John Dowland's music, and worth your time if you are an early music enthusiast. The biggest highlights are the vocal recordings done by Emma Kirkby, who has a wonderful soprano voice that is perfect for the style of music. The solo lute recordings are also very nicely done, and highlight the lute's unique texture - these recordings do not sound like a guitar. I highly recommend this collection.

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Rating: - The greatest songs ever?
I heard 'clear or cloudy', from this recording, on the radio recently and had to purchase it. It is strange but it is the sort of song that makes life prior to listening to it different from life after. I find it sad that so many people haven't heard it. There are also many other wonderful works in this collection. Given you get twelve well recorded CDs with top quality performances, this has to be one of the bargains of the age.

Please buy it.

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Rating: - A musical treasure-box
Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

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Rating: - a beautiful journey into melancholy
I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).