Cradle of Conceits (Lute Music of Anthony Holborne) Lee Santana

• Anthony Holborne (1545 - 1602):
• 1 Holborne: Cradle Pavan 04:28
• 2 Holborne: As It Fell on a Holly Eve 01:04
• 3 Holborne: Cradle of Conceits 03:46
• 4 Holborne: Fantasia No. 3 01:54
• 5 Holborne: Bandora Prelude 01:17
• 6 Holborne: Tres Choses 03:36
• 7 Holborne: Pavane No. 2 03:56
• 8 Holborne: Galliard No. 2 01:28
• 9 Holborne: Pearl 01:24
• 10 Holborne: Muy Linda 01:28
• 11 Holborne: Pavane Quadro 03:16
• 12 Holborne: What You Will 01:23
• 13 Holborne: The Oulde Almaine 00:56
• 14 Holborne: Pavane Passamezzo 05:22
• 15 Holborne: Galliard Passamezzo 02:05
• 16 Holborne: Heartes Ease 02:08
• 17 Holborne: Heigh Ho Holiday 01:02
• 18 Holborne: Jast 01:30
• 19 Holborne: Bandora Fantasia No. 2 04:27
• 20 Holborne: Last Will and Testament 05:00
• 21 Holborne: The New Yeare's Gift 01:41
• 22 Holborne: The Teares of the Muses 02:04
• 23 Holborne: Mr. D. Bonds Galliard 01:37
• 24 Holborne: Playfellow 03:29
• 25 Holborne: Responce Galliard 02:18
• 26 Holborne: Night Watch 01:39
• 27 Holborne: Lullaby 04:16
• Total Runtime 01:08:34

Info for Cradle of Conceits (Lute Music of Anthony Holborne)

Fantasies, airs and dances written by English Renaissance composer and lute-player Anthony Holborne (1545-1602), played by American composer and lute-player Lee Santana on lute, cittern and bandora in an enchanting and spirited interpretation.

Recorded in a small medieval church in Northern Germany.

Lee Santana, lute, bandora, cittern

Lee Santana
was born into a musicians family in Florida at the end of the baby-boomer era. Into his youth he played a lot of jazz-rock music, and a little classical on the side, from the age of 16 on, classical music grew on him. As a boomer-anything is possible- youth, his role models went from fusion composer-players to classical composer-players. As a guitarist-lutenist these role models became earlier and earlier and has rested in a life long dynamic discussion with player-composers of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

In order to better ,follow his star‘, Santana moved to Europe in 1984. There he met the gamba virtuose Hille Perl, and an intense creative process began which continues to evolve thirty years later.

After many journeyman‘s years, working for many of the best ensembles, conductors and soloists, Lee has become the projector of his own concepts and plans, working as soloist or with Hille, or with their groups The Age of Passions, Los Otros or Sirius Viols. As a team, Hille and Lee also enjoy working with their friends Dorothee Mields and Maurice Steger.

As a composer, Lee is presently concerned with a large Requiem for the Nuclear Age, as well as music for a video/performance ‚Love’s Beginnings’ which will be shown in Feldkirch Austria next year. Stylistically, he has taken his own path, refusing to bog down in the expectations and clichés of the post modern „new“ music movement.

His forthcoming solo CD is entitled ‚A Song of Divine Love‘ and is a kind of extended light-meditation, with works from J.S.Bach,Lee Santana und S.L.Weiß. His present work reflects a growing conviction in the fundamental goodness and interconnectedness of just about everything, and a deep gratitude for the privilege of music making, and for the love and support of family and friends.

This album contains no booklet.