Rear sleeve notes:
On "Songs from the Labyrinth", Sting discovers the music of Elizabethan songwriter John Dowland: "beautiful melodies, fantastic lyrics, great accompaniments". In close collaboration with lutenist Edin Karamazov, he interweaves songs with instrumental solos and evocative readings from a Dowland letter. together they create what Sting calls "a musical sound-track" to the composer's life.

Booklet notes:
1. (Ballad Setting)
2. ("The Earl of Essex's Galliard"; First Booke of Songes, 1597, no. 5)
3. (Letter from Dowland to Sir Robert Cecil, Nuremberg, 10 November 1595)
4. (Second Booke of Songes, 1600, no. 2)
5. (From Ben Jonson: The Devil Is an Ass, 1616)
6. (Letter to Sir Robert Cecil)
7. (Also known as "The Battle Balliard")
8. (Third Booke of Songes, 1603, no. 19)
9. (Letter to Sir Robert Cecil)
10. (Second Booke of Songes, 1600, no. 12)
11. (Letter to Sir Robert Cecil)
13. (First Booke of Songes, 1597, no. 20)
15. (Letter to Sir Robert Cecil)
16. (First Booke of Songes, 1597, no. 17)
17. (First Booke of Songes, 1597, no. 15)
18. (Letter to Sir Robert Cecil)
19. (Third Booke of Songes, 1603, no. 15)
20. (Version for two lutes)
21. (Second Booke of Songes, 1600, no. 21)
22. (Letter to Sir Robert Cecil)
23. (A Musicall Banquet, 1610, no. 10)

Instruments played in this recording by Edin Karamazov:
8-course lute: Nico Van der Waals, 1989 (after Vendelio Venere)
10-course lute: Cezar Mateus, New Jersey 1998 (after Michele Hartung, Padua 1602)
13-course archlute: Cezar Mateus, 1999 (after Franciscus Budianus, Brescia 1600)
14-course archlute: Cezar Mateus, 2004 (after Mateo Sellas)
Instrument played by Sting:
13-course archlute: Cezar Mateus, 2005 (after Franciscus Budianus, Brescia 1600)

Recorded at Steerpike Studios, Il Palagio, Italy
Additional recordings & mixing at Metropolis Studios, London

Publishing:
© 2006 Steerpike (Overseas) Limited/Edin Karamazov, Administered by EMI Publishing Ltd.

℗ 2006 UMG Recordings, Inc.
© 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
Printed and made in the E.U.

Digipak with 28pp booklet.

Cat. no. on front booklet and disc label is 06025 170 3139.
On the spine and reverse 06025 170 3139 is immediately followed by a [G|H] code as if a suffix.

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