"I wanted to create a kind of Shakespearean programme. With Dowland and Purcell, there's no artifice ... The emotions are deep, it's in your face, it's raw." Lutenist Thomas Dunford, and his partners mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and Ensemble Jupiter, are joined in the drama of Songs of Passion by baritone (and Erato artist) Huw Montague Rendall, contralto Jess Dandy, tenor Laurence Kilsby and bass Alex Rosen.