Lachrimae or Seven Tears - John Dowland
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Lachrimae or Seven Tears - John Dowland
Elizabeth Kenny; Phantasm
[ Linn Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 July 2019
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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".
Tracks:
1 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: I. Lachrimae Antiquae
2 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: II. Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
3 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: III. Lachrimae Gementes
4 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: IV. Lachrimae Tristes
5 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: V. Lachrimae Coactae
6 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: VI. Lachrimae Amantis
7 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: VII. Lachrimae Verae
8 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: VIII. Mr Nicholas Gryffith His Galliard
9 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: IX. Sir John Souch His Galliard
10 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: X. Semper Dowland semper Dolens
11 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XI. Mr Giles Hoby His Galliard
12 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XII. The King of Denmark's Galliard
13 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XIII. Mr Bucton His Galliard
14 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XIV. The Earl of Essex Galliard
15 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XV. Captain Piper His Galliard
16 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XVI. Mr Henry Noell His Galliard
17 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XVII. Mr Thomas Collier His Galliard with Two Trebles
18 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XVIII. Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral
19 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XIX. Mr George Whitehead His Alman
20 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XX. Mrs Nichols's Alman
21 Lachrimae or Seven Tears: XXI. Mr John Langton's Pavan
