Dowland: Lute Music, Vol. 3 - Pavans, Galliards and Almains

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JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lute Music, Vol. 3 - Pavans, Galliards and Almains
Nigel North (lute)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 4 January 2008

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"North fashioned an imagined book of solo Pavans, Galliards and Almains and dishes up the result in a flourish. From sympathetic gravitas to benugn smile, worldly-wise courliness to sonorous swagger, North is a Dowland-ist for all seasons" Instrumental Recording of the Month BBC Music (February 2008)

"North fashioned an imagined book of solo Pavans, Galliards and Almains and dishes up the result in a flourish. From sympathetic gravitas to benugn smile, worldly-wise courliness to sonorous swagger, North is a Dowland-ist for all seasons - and on Naxos, for all pockets!" Instrumental Recording of the Month BBC Music (February 2008)

The pre-eminent lutenist of his day, John Dowland was an almost exact contemporary of William Shakespeare. This third volume of Dowland's Lute Music (Volumes 1 and 2 are available on Naxos 8.557586 and 8.557862) explores the three principal dances of the time, Pavans, Galliards and Almains. Of particular note are the strikingly unusual Galliard on a Galliard of Bachelar, which takes the opening four bars of an original dance by Dowland's contemporary Daniel Bachelar and then branches off into its own world of great variety and fantasy, and the beautiful and serious "Pavana Doulant", a work written from the very heart of the composer known as the 'English Orpheus'.

Tracks:

Solus cum sola, P. 10
Melancholy Galliard, P. 25
Sir John Smith, his Almain, P. 47
The Lady Russell's Pavan, P. 17
Dowland's Bells, P. 43a, "The Lady Rich's Galliard"
Lady Laiton's Almain, P. 48
Mrs Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan, P. 11, "Solus sine sola" Mr Knight's Galliard, P. 36
Mrs Clifton's Almain, P. 53
Dr Case's Pavan, P. 12
The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lisle, his Galliard, P. 91, "Sir Robert Sidney's Galliard"
Sir Henry Guilforde, his Almain
Pavana Doulant
The Earl of Derby's Galliard, P. 44
Almain in D major, P. 51
La mia Barbara, P. 95
Round Battle Galliard, P. 39
Almain in G major, P. 49
Pavan in C minor, P. 94, "Pavana Johan Douland"
Galliard (on a galliard by Daniel Bacheler)
Almain in C minor, P. 96