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  • Excellent performance! Thanks for uploading.

  • Alice Coote also sings this very well, though I think her queenly voice is more suited to Handel.

    The English Concert (Library of Congress Concert) starting at 45min.

  • Alice Coote also sings this very well (search for the English Concert, starting @45min), but she has queenly voice, Valeria is more convincing as an anguished young lover.

  • she is singing like a ship sinking in the evening full of feeling,

    so deep, very soulful, it triggers lots of impressive images in mind

  • Enjoyable!

  • Bellisima interpretacion y bellisima la cantante. No sera Rosarina no??

  • What kind of jerks pressed dislike? The girl is charming :) The lute is very gentle and nice too!

  • Very beautiful piece :-) - you have a very nice singing voice -beautiful to listen to both of you :-)!

    Have a nice day!

    Michael

  • , the Policeman said.

  • linda voz.. suave.. @_@

  • I absolutely love this performance.

  • how can you dislike this?

    I assume that 1% is completely ignorant of talent and the other 1% pressed the wrong button :)

  • :')

  • Full of admiration, fine singing and lute playing.

  • It's not a song, it's a play...

    Just Lovely.

  • @punkdissorder it's not a play, it's a lute song...

  • @yanpan16 what? haha, I meant that this song tells as much as a whole play...it was a metaphor...I can see and listen...Can u read between the lines?

  • @punkdissorder no need to question my reading abilities. in my defence, you did say "it's not a song" and your comment is not in a context where people tend to speak metaphorically (rather, people tend to correct and criticise each other and the videos!) so i hope you can see how i read (or misread, if you like) your words. if it was me i probably would have gone for a simile, or said something like "It's not just a song" in an attempt to avoid any hint of ambiguity as to my meaning. :)

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  • Je crois que ceci est un repertoire pour contreténor aussi n'est-ce pas?

  • Very nice!

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  • Whats with the singing?

  • マイフレさんの紹介で聞きに来ました。

    たしかに・・・

  • Beautiful

  • renaissance xD

  • que bueno esta!!!

  • you idiots, she is telling a story with her voice and face, and the lute flows the story line

  • Someone commented that she ought not to be making facial expressions. Well, it is possible to make music impassively, I suppose, but it would be difficult for most people. And for a song of this emotional charge.....I think not!

    And as for the format (she's not a counter tenor)....this is a classic song. There is room for any amount of interpretations, isn't there?

  • music that makes me listen to

  • yea some people sing with passion and with that comes facial expressions this woman is beautiful

  • They made this music around the XVI century.... and wee where beeing discoveried... We are never be a nice place.... We can be a fucking power but, this, i mean, culture, education... never.... I should say for you europeans that you are humans...... maybe in 300 years we can be like you....

  • So otherworldly and hypnotic! I feel like I'm listening to a Siren... weaving her magic spell on me and luring me to my death...

  • greatest song from the renaissance

  • 18 people think that professionist's song is sweet child o' mine

  • @SophiaLaiho so... that means axel is what kind of countertenor? XD

  • A singer shapes their sound with their facial expressions centered on the mouth. Absolutely critical. You have to live the piece to make it believable. She is a amazing singer. Enjoy the gift. Great Lute too!

  • @photopicker Indeed photopicker; the lutenist (Señor Alfonso Marín) is helping her to live through the song.

  • sublime....

  • amazing..................

  • Valeria you are wonderful...and Alfonso thanks so much....keep on making the music with something real Inside!!!.....YES!!! Bravo....!!! peace...

  • Flow, my tears, fall from your springs!

    Exiled for ever, let me mourn;

    Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,

    There let me live forlorn.

  • she sings beautiful!!!

  • you will surely enjoy this video! its a friend of mine in her recent audition at the academie

    watch?v=CVKH_lAnv8w&feature=BF­a&list=LL5zm2XBNeLkc&index=7

  • how beautiful!

  • This is so beautiful. Her voice is quite exquisite. Bravo.

  • I wonder why anyone got the idea this is a song for male singer(?).

    "Flow my tears" is in Dowland's Second Book opf Songs or Ayres, 1600, no. 2.

    The original notation has the melody in the "soprano" or "canto" clef (middle C bottom line), with lute tablature. There is an optional bass part (voice or viol) on the facing page. In the context of Dowland's time and place, any voice part was acceptable for solo songs.

  • @AcadiaMusicEditor women would not have been allowed to sing this in a court it would have been a young boy certainly in england that would most likely be the case

  • @dobsonone I have documentation of women singing at court. True, in Masques and Sacred music only males sang, but this is not masque music nor is it sacred. In any case, Dowland was not appointed at the English Court when this was published (Second Booke...,1602). Dowland was appointed at Court in 1612. He dedicates the book to "Lady Lucie the Comptesse of Bedford." He states, "I...giue especiall honor, to your knowledge of Musicke... ." [I have published 7 vols, of editions in this field.]

  • @dobsonone To add just a bit: The dedications of Dowland's and other period song books suggests these largly were intended for private use, and aimed at the nobility in their domestic contexts. In such contexts, women would have sung more than anyone else. I mention also two poems set by Wm Lawes (in the 1630s, so a bit later, in court songs).One states, "It is her voice..., and let a thousand love songs fill mine ears..."; (autograph MS f. 16v) the other, "Had you but heard her sing..."(f. 24).

  • I believe this is Valeria and Alfonso's best performance of Dowland's Flow My Tears, even better than on their album. Valeria is lovely here in my opinion the play of the shadows on her face, the dramatic use of her hands. and Alfonso is a talented lutenist they work well together. On the Album I believe they were valeria worked too hard striving for perfect enunciation, I bought it on Amazon.com for Christmas. I like them so much I had to buy their album and am waiting for their next.

  • lute mania

  • hipnoptic, awesome!

  • Perfect!

    

  • Simply gorgeous :)

  • vorrei sapere chi sono quei 18 imbelli da orecchie asinine che hanno votato il non mi piace

  • Amazing...

  • Oh my dear God. I thought John Dowland pieces were beautiful played on the lute just by itself, but, with such awe-inspiring vocal accompaniment... it brought me to tears. Emotion turned directly into music... this is life-changing stuff.

  • I think this is beautiful . I don't care for stupid comments about facial expressions,

    she "feels it " .And mr Dowland is King ! I want to know who they are , does anbody know ?

    solea59

  • ottima musica ed interpretazione eccellente!

    Molto bravi!

  • What a song and what a performance to arouse the passion!

  • the lute is such a beautiful instrument.

  • I throughly enjoyed this although the one thing that i didn't like was the massive "t" sound at the end. it seemed to ruin the whole atmosphere of the melancholy ending. But, i didnt perform it so i dont have a right to tell her what to do. An amazing performance nonetheless.

  • Beautiful,, 

  • voce troppo 'vuota di colore'

  • absolutely great .... doing this without torturing natural breathing is what they called mastership.

  • Supposed to be sung by a man. But beautiful anyway!

  • Brilliant sorrow.

  • From the highest spire of contentment,

    My fortune is throwne,

    And feare, and griefe, and paine

    For my deserts, are my hopes since hope is gone.

    Hark you shadowes that in darnesse dwell,

    Learn to contemne light,

    Happy that in hell

    Feele not the worlds despite.

  • Flow my teares fall from your springs, Exilde for ever: Let me morne Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorne. Downe vaine lights shine you no more, No nights are dark enough for those That in dispaire their last fortunes deplore, Light doth but shame disclose. Never may my woes be relieved, Since pittie is fled, And teares, and sighes, and grones My wearie days of all joyes have deprived.
  • seems i`m not the only one who found to John Dowland by PKD. However,it last me 20 years to get to Dowland (lucky findin flow my tears on Tube at once) since first reading Flow my tears, the policeman said. Lucky me now, feeling enlighted and enchanted. To anyone who doesn`t know: Read "The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldridge" by Philip Kenred Dick. Better than tha Holy Bible, for he is a Prophet in our times. LOL

    They both on stage mean what they`re doin, look at her, look at him! Holy Art!

  • Tearsome

  • PURE BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! brava

  • orgasm, orgasm, orgasm...

  • Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely love Renaissance Music!!!!! In fact, I sing it myself. You sound marvellously well!!!!

  • Superbe!!!!

  • Folks - get over yourselves! Of course she does not have to make facial expressions but if there was only one way of doing a thing art would be dead. And who cares if she's not a countertenor - she's not supposed to be. This is just gorgeous and if you cannot appreciate that then there are many other versions on youtube to suit - bottom line, this is quite beautiful!

  • @macgiollabuide It just makes me laugh...people asserting how this music, or any music is "supposed" to be performed.  Like we have any real idea! How you can sing about love and heartbreak and all of the human emotions, so beautifully written by Dowland, and keep a straight face. It's emotional stuff! And countertenors? Their singing is cold and false, and therefore cannot portray emotion...the sound is all strangled and ephemeral. Give me this, any day.

  • @macgiollabuide indeed

  • @macgiollabuide Agree this is well done....hehe if you want to see facial expressions please go see Vivica Genaux in anything!!!....but start perhaps with "Agitata de due Venti" by Vivaldi....She is off the scale in terms of vocal capacity...however she and others liken really working the voice and expression to playing the violin....and it is like saying to a really Great Violinist....ok do that again, but this time I don't want to be seeing you move the bow....ok???/ peace...

  • @macgiollabuide Brava !!.

  • alfred deller

  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman said

  • @krfkeith that's how i found this song, have been grateful to pkd ever since

  • @casperado666

    Awesome! I like PKD, one of my favourite authors (obviously)!

  • @krfkeith Yep, Philip K Dick was a Dowland fan.

  • @krfkeith @__@?

  • @aachelabelaaron

    it's the name of a Phillip K. Dick book, he loved John Dowland's compositions

  • @krfkeith COOL. it would be real neat if there was a madrigal or galliard or something called, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"! XD

  • @aachelabelaaron Wow! I like the way you think dude. That would be sweeeeeeet! ;D

  • @robertplant16 if only one of the guys here thought it! lmao!!! but the challenge is on! i bet Robert Plant could do it!!!

  • The music is only two pages long with three repeated parts in which the lute part is ornamented so the music does not need to be turned. Also it should be a countertenor not a female voice.

    Still sounds good though

  • I always enjoy so much this performance.The first: it is a beautiful song. I agree that she should show more discretion with her face expression. Too much drama.. But I love her "little vibrato" and her young girl voice. Her diction is very careful. Excellent and clean sound of the lutenist player. Definitly: I love this!

  • hark your shadows that in darkness dwell

  • bellisimo tema! :)

  • I like her voice, but does she have to make these faces while she sings :P

  • @Yahyoohy would you rather she sang with a straight boring face, like a robot? She obviously enjoys the song and is putting emotion into her singing. Without it she would sound bland and boring. The facial expressions help her tone/sound. Do you say the same thing about your favorite pop vocalist?

  • Magical!!!!

  • when do you come to Mexico?

  • the real meaning of youtube is this.

    so good !!

  • Where heaven meets eternal bliss

    How wonderful a performance

    An angelic singer heart piercingly beautiful

    accompanied by a lutenist playing

    touching counterpoint emotionally>

    Oh JOHN thoust music toucheth my soul

  • Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,

    There let me live forlorn

  • great!!!

  • grande sintonia fra i due interpreti....bellissimo timbro di voce.....bellissimo brano

  • For Mol: Thinking of you and of course will always and forever love you, You are with me infinately. Thanks for the music, it is beautiful. Each time we have been pulled away from each other, the weight of the gravity pulling back to you, seems to increase. Define love however you want, it still equals me loving you. LNE

  • How beautiful.

  • Thank you! This helps me a lot! Sounds AMAZING!

  • It's quite easy to see why this song was such a "hit" during Elizabethan England and why it's still moving today...

  • That is just perfect and moving. And yes AndiBotti, audience is pathetic. BTW, Hythsonne and the likes, please explain how you can sing by reading without turning any pages for 5 minutes.

  • @ARRRISTOCHAT same melody line repeated several times (strophic) words are lined underneath. my school has a facsimile it is only one page for the vocal and lute part combined. Its really neat to look at sheet music so old. Its even laid out in choir book form so you could put one copy at a table and the two voice parts (optional lower voice) can sit at a table together on two sides

  • my goodnes, so much truth!!

  • This is an excellent rendition of this song. Dowland's music is so melancholy and the two of you do a fantastic job emulating that feeling. Beautiful!

  • Lindo!

    Parabéns!

  • Excelente interpretação ! O Alaúde está sempre lá e bem ! A postura e sonoridade da cantora é especial ! Parabens !!

     Mestre@ndré

  • pathetic audience . >:( she deserved standing ovation

  • Its a bit odd that such an obviously good singer hasn't got this very well know song memorized?

  • @JohnAndrewHall1 If she had it memorized she wouldnt have themusic in fromt of her.

  • This is a revelation. And a rebuke---Where the f*** have I been ? I eat this stuff up, can never get enough. I have to make more room in my life for the things that make life worth living, like this duo, bless them.

  • This is absolutely superb.  I could get really technical and point out that it's a male contralto song, but she sings it so utterly beautifully as to make it her own. And we get this for free on Youtube? This girl needs to be a huge star. And the lute guy's pretty good too.

  • What a great song.

  • Baroque at its Best

  • @volatile420 Renaissance

  • This is one of my favorite songs right now.

  • beautiful

  • It's a beautiful performance, with fine diction as others have said -- as long as you don't look at it. The girl is lovely, but she never stops rocking and emoting with her hands for a second. Distracting, I'm afraid. Not the less because she seems to be dividing her time between "painting the text" and glancing back at the music.

  • @manthasagittarius She's lovely. Nothing wrong with the performance, period. 

  • Very nice! (TS)

  • wow. Amazing acoustics wherever they are playing. I can't see any mics.

  • absolutely beautiful voice; angelic; charming accompanyment on the lute; brilliant performance

  • where can i find the sheet or the tablature for this song? for lute or classic guitar, i can play both.

  • Beautiful!

  • Eine wunderschöne Frau, wunderschöne Stimme, fantastisches Stück... Die Zeit bleibt stehen jedes Mal wenn ich mir das hier angucke.

  • I prefer to Andreas Scholl ... No doubt it is best to interpret the work of John Dowland ...

  • Das höchste Lob gebührt der Sängerin und ihrem Begleiter, dem Lautenspieler! Beiden sage ich Dankeschön.

    Leila

  • Bravo!

  • Lovely...

  • English sounds evil even when sang by Italian!

    :D kidding!

  • Yo tengo q cantar esta obra en mi examen de cámara, tengo q transportarla para mi registro q es el de soprano, como ella; ya q la original está en mi menor, ella lo canta en la menor.A transportar.Lo canta bellamente.

  • @Purpurina11 El original es La menor si asumes que se trata de un laúd en SOL. Lo de que el original está en Mi menor no lo he oído nunca antes. ¡Suerte en tu examen!

  • There is another version of this song by the same duo. Look for it, it is much better than this one!!

  • Appreciate being able to hear this performance.

  • They don't write 'em like that anymore

  • this is amazing. i'm playing lachrimae pavane now and this is my main inspiration source! very good performance!

  • "Escuchad, sombras, pueblo de tinieblas,

    aprendez a despreciar la luz

    Felices felices quienes en los infiernos

    no sufren los ultrajes de este mundo"

    me encanta esa parte

  • the most beautiful interpreation of "flow my tears" that I've ever had a chance to hear

  • she's a bit mad.

  • Não tenho palavras para expressar minha emoção. Lindissimo! Dowland, uma voz esplêndida e um lute delicadíssimo. Maravilhoso mesmo.

  • I listen to this about 5 times a day, absolutely stunningly performed. 5 stars.

  • very good - not too slow and not too fast.

  • beautiful...!! beautiful music, beautiful instrument, beautiful voice. and also a beautiful woman=) i love dowland!

  • Wonderfull ! I enjoy this video so much. Perfect.

  • Wonderfull ! I enjoy this video so much.

  • cómo melancolica ... muy bonita.

  • Very nice!

  • Awesome interpretation of this marvelous piece.

    Dowland is one of the greatest composers, his music is magical.

  • Perfect in every detail.

  • I love historic music!superb.

  • I really enjoyed this performance. Bravo!!

  • I'm singing this for a solo festival in a couple months... Now I'm completely intimidated...

  • Congratulations!

    Great job!!

  • Lindo demaais! Essa música é belissima!

  • Bravissimi. Che voce!

  • Siete magnifici, e siete in grado di eseguire musica autentica che tocca l'anima, complimenti :)

  • 0:19 is transcendent.

  • Brillant

  • Well done - full of emotion. Living it.

  • Beauty and artifice

  • john dowland´s music is just magic, and also your voice is so beautifull! I´m glad to hear this song by you.

  • pitty on those who say they can sing!!! the should see this!!!! OMG!!!!

  • How beautiful. I love the energy between the two of you.

  • I don´t know who is more beautiful: the song or the singer...

  • Sublime!!!!!

    I watch this video everyday....and just dont know words to say how it makes me feel...

  • ΕΞΟΧΗ!!

  • fantastic!

  • Dover publishing has Dowland's First and Second Books of songs and ayres with the original lute TAB and a guitar transcription in modern music score.

    This one is from the Second Book.

    Buy them on-line direct from Dover.

  • wow you sing very beautifully

  • Fantastic! I've never heard a duo-ensemble performing this song. This combination classic voice and lute is something special. Incredible!

  • i'm melting away.... merci