Head of Early Music and lutenist Professor Elizabeth Kenny features on a recording which has won a prestigious Gramophone award.
Professor Kenny appears on Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears as a guest musician, playing lute with ensemble Phantasm. The recording picked up the 2017 Early Music Award.
Professor Elizabeth Kenny
She says:
“I’m delighted to have been involved with this wonderful recording and I feel honoured to be working with such a distinguished and expressive group of musicians.”
The album, released in July 2016 on the Linn label, focusses on English Renaissance composer John Dowland’s ‘Lachrimae’, an intense and passionate set of pavans mixed with flamboyant instrumental dances, first published in 1604.
Gramophone’s original review praised Phantasm’s ‘totally convincing and absorbing’ performances, stating ‘nothing is routine in Phantasm’s hands.’
Professor Kenny is no stranger to awards this year, teaming up with acclaimed English tenor Ian Bostridge to help win a Grammy in February in the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for the recording Shakespeare Songs.
