Brandon Acker & Nicholas Phan: A Recital of English Baroque Songs

ByBradford Werner
2021

Nicholas Phan (tenor) and Brandon Acker (theorbo) give a recital of English Baroque songs. This comes via Acker’s fantastic YouTube channel. If you want to support the recital or see more of Acker’s materials check out the various links in the description of his video. Beautiful playing and singing with some charming repertoire. Acker has a very active channel and lots of great vids if you haven’t already subscribed. Songs:

Love’s Constancy by Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666)
If Music be the Food of Love by Henry Purcell (c. 1659 – 1695)
Have you seen the bright lily grow? by Robert Johnson (c.1583–1633)
Give me my lute by Robert Banister (c.1630/3-1679)

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.