Consort of Musicke - John Dowland & Friends Lute Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Un Nuovo Giorno O Un Giorno Nuovo 2. L'amico E Domani 3. Uomini Persi 4. La Vita È Adesso 5. Tutto Il Calcio Minuto Per Minuto 6. Andiamo a Casa 7. Amori in Corso 8. E Adesso la Pubblicità 9. Un Treno Per Dove 10. Notte Di Note, Note Di Notte

The seven Lachrimae Pavan of 1604 are widely held to mark not only the high point of Dowland's work but the entire genre of viol consort music. Dowland takes a lamenting pavan that he had written some years earlier and develops it's theme into a cycle which takes the listener through different states of tearfulness, from loneliness to despair through hope to love and finally joy - the 'true tears' of the final pavan. In it's contrapuntal mastery and it's ingenuity in the treatment of a single theme, the Lachrimae cycle stands alongside The Art of Fugue composed by J.S. Bach a century and a half later. Most recordings of the Lachrimae use the standard instrumentation of a consort of viols, ranging from treble to bass and accompanied by a lute. For his second recording of the cycle, however, the Italian violist Cristiano Contadin has boldly created a broken consort performance which mixes the recorder and also early violin and viola in with the uniquely grainy timbre of the viols. Such an instrumentation exploits the long association of the recorder with music of lamentation, and makes a historical connection with, for example, the cantatas of Bach. Contadin explains with a booklet essay that his aim in performance is to recover the 'passionate' nature of this music as Dowland envisaged it in his own written preface to the score, and indeed there is nothing dry or constricted about the performance he directs from the treble viol. Now, with three generations of period performance research and practice under their belts, musicians are beginning to play this music with the kind of freedom and spontaneity and emotion they would accord (in other ways) to Brahms, and this new recording deserves comparison with the most distinguished accounts from the recent past. Album Tracks 1. Antiquae 2. Novae Antiquae Novae 3. Gementes 4. Tristes 5. Coactae 6. Amantis 7.

Album Tracks 1. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 2. Galliard in B minor - Riccardo Bini 3. Lord Strang's March - Riccardo Bini 4. What If I Never Speed? - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 5. Sir John Smith, His Almaine - Riccardo Bini 6. The Frog Galliard - Riccardo Bini 7. Flow My Tears - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 8. Mr. Dowland's Midnight - Riccardo Bini 9. Mrs. White's Nothinge - Riccardo Bini 10. Come Again - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 11. Galliard in E minor - Riccardo Bini 12. Lady Laiton's Almaine - Riccardo Bini 13. Go Crystal Tears - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 14. The Right Honourable the Lady Rich, Her Galliard - Riccardo Bini 15. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe Almaine - Adriano Sebastiani 16. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 17. Mrs. Winter's Jump - Adriano Sebastiani 18. Tarleton's Riserrectione - Adriano Sebastiani 19. If My Complaints Could Passions Move - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 20. Orlando Sleepeth - Adriano Sebastiani 21. A Galliard in a - Adriano Sebastiani 22. My Thoughts Are Wing'd with Hopes - Siphiwe McKenzie/Adriano Sebastiani 23. My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard - Adriano Sebastiani/Riccardo Bini 24. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home - Adriano Sebastiani/Riccardo Bini