Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears

Phantasm;
Kenny, Elizabeth

CKR 527

This wonderful album has won two major Early Music awards: the 2017 Gramophone Award and the 2017 Diapason d’or de l’année. It was also named a BBC Radio 3 Building A Library ‘First Choice’. • John Dowland’s gifts as an exceptional melodist are evident throughout Lachrimae or Seven Tears, an artistic achievement which has cast a remarkable spell on early music. • Summing up the Renaissance preoccupation with melancholy, this extraordinary collection of dance music for viols and lute includes Dowland’s ‘signature’ piece, Semper Dowland semper Dolens. • Dowland reveals a personal world of sublime sadness, grief, anger and melancholy mollified by moments of joy and gladness. • A skilled lutenist, Dowland’s intricately-worked parts demand perfect synchronicity between Phantasm and Elizabeth Kenny, who rise to the technical and tempi challenges of marrying their instruments. • Although freed from lyric constraints poetic images linger prompting Phantasm’s Laurence Dreyfus to describe this as “the most sensuously tuneful hour of music ever written”.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Linn

01-07-2019

0691062052771