In the introduction to John Dowland's First Booke of Songs this greatest (and most colourful) of Elizabethan lutenist composers describes how he learned his "ingenuous profession": both at "those sweet springs of humanity" Oxford and Cambridge, and also "sundry times leaving my native countrey, the better to attain so excellent a science". Viols, recorder, lute and singer Jennie Cassidy bring to life songs and instrumental music by Dowland in the context of the "excellent masters and most honorable patrons" he discovered on his travels in Germany, France, Italy and Denmark. Master of musical melancholy though he was, the concert demonstrates that, in his music as in his life, his description of himself as Semper Dowland, Semper dolens (ever Dowland, ever grieving) only tells part of the story!