Album: Sweelinck, Secular Vocal Works, (Glossa)
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Sadly, the singers downplay his virtuosity, and though the diction and blend are tidy enough, there's a fatal lack of drama. Lee Santana's lute solos and Anneke Boeke and Marion Verbruggen's Renaissance recorders pep things up when the going gets dull.
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