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Time stands still in this album of delicate, intricate beauty\nfrom Tenor Justin Burwood and lute virtuoso Rosemary Hodgson.

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Sorrow Stay brings together the most lachrymose of Dowland’s\nsongs, not intended to make the listener sad, but rather to soothe,\ncalm and ravish the listener unlike any other music known. From\nSweet Stay a While to Flow My Tears and In Darkness Let Me Dwell,\nwe find all of life and all of our humanity – love, pain, drama,\npassion and release – assembled not only for those who lived during\nthe Renaissance, but still relevant to our emotions today.

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As Dowland so perfectly states: ‘And though the title doth\npromise tears…, yet no doubt pleasant are the tears which music\nweeps, neither are tears shed always in sorrow but sometimes in joy\nand gladness.’

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Born in Melbourne, Australia, Rosemary Hodgson has lived and\nworked abroad, performing in Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Germany and\nVenezuela.

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A graduate of Melbourne University, where she studied with\nprofessor John Griffiths, in 2000 Rosemary completed her\npostgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, London with\nJakob Lindberg and since her return to Australia has forged a path\nas free-lance continuo player and soloist. Her solo debut cd rosa\nwas released in March 2004. She has appeared frequently on ABC\ntelevision and radio, Channel Seven and 3MBS.

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Rosemary performs regularly with Duo Seria, Rosa Mundi and La\nCompania and is featured on the 2007 releases of El Fuego on ABC\nClassics and Rosa Mundi (Maiseyday Music). In December 2008, her\nsolo recording Forlorn Hope Fancy was released on the ABC Classics\nlabel and has been internationally acclaimed.

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“The lute world has a new star” - Lute News (August 2009)

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After initial vocal training and choral experiences with the\nChor Leoni Men’s Choir and the Christ Church Cathedral Choir in\nVancouver, Justin Burwood left his native Canada in 2001. Since\nthen, his love of languages, music and travel has taken him around\nthe globe. Justin studied early music interpretation with Max van\nEgmond and Howard Crook and contributed to a recording of Dutch\nmadrigals while living in the Netherlands; worked at the Royal\nConservatory of Music in Stockholm and sang with men’s choir Orphei\nDrängar while living in Sweden; and most recently sang with the\nmen’s vocal consort Cappella Sanctae Catharinae and gave highly\nacclaimed solo performances of German and French art song cycles\nwhile living on the Mediterranean island of Malta. During the time\nhe spent living in Australia, Justin sang both as soloist and\nensemble member with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s\nBrandenburg Choir in Sydney and with vocal ensemble e21 in\nMelbourne.

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