Greensleeves by Francis Cutting played on a Renaissance Lute

Francis Cutting was one of the most important and one of the most obscure musicians to flourish in Elizabethan England. He was one of the most important because he probably was the first musician to make a name for himself playing the lute rather than by singing in church choirs or by keyboard playing. In addition, only the heroic generations immediately after his time -- John Dowland, Daniel Bacheler, and Antony Holborne -- left more surviving compositions. Fully 11 of Cutting’s pieces were printed in Barl