Theleme - All We Get Is Life - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. Album Tracks 1. Dowland Song Books 2. Dowland The Second Booke of Songs 3. Dowland The Second Booke of Songs 4. Dowland The Second Booke of Songs 5. Cage Five 6. Cage Song Books 7. Dowland Lady If You So Spight Mee 8. Cage Eight Whiskus 9. Cage Dream 10. Dowland I Saw My Lady Weepe 11. Dowland Flow My Teares 12. Dowland A Dream 13. Cage She Is Asleep 14. Cage A Room 15. Dowland The Second Booke of Songs 16. Dowland The Second Booke of Songs 17. Dowland The Second Booke of Songs 18. Shape of My Heart (Featuring Sting)