Theatre of Early Music - Here Let My Life - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

J.S. Bach - Cantatas BWV 54 & 170 / Concerto BWV / Orchestral [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/25/2011

Cage and Dowland the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for sober expression, concise forms and intimate realization - and for the pleasure that comes from words as such. Each cultivates this desire in his own way. Cage, like a tightrope walker, approaches the essence of musical thought with humor, lightness, and depth, and Dowland aims for the expression of feelings in their purest form. Cultivating as always a fertile anachronism, the Thélème ensemble brings together the complete works for two voices and lute by Dowland, several compositions by Cage, and world-renowned artist Sting offers a reworking of his hit song, InchShape of My HeartInch, which in this new arrangement becomes a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle on an album where Renaissance and present meet, mingle, and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.

Tafelmusik - Brandenburg [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/17/1995