A Pleasing Melancholy: John Dowland’s Lachrimae Pavans and sundry sorrowful songs
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2283
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 29th September 2017
Contents
Works
Eyes, look no moreIf I could shut the gate
Flow my teares
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (7)
Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled
Mr George Whitehead his Almand
Paduan
Sorrow, come (arr. William Wigthorpe)
The Second Book of Songs (22)
My heavy sprite (arr. Ibrahim Aziz)
What greater griefe
Lie downe poore heart
Artists
Chelys Consort of ViolsEmma Kirkby (soprano)
James Akers (lute)
Works
Eyes, look no moreIf I could shut the gate
Flow my teares
Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares (7)
Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled
Mr George Whitehead his Almand
Paduan
Sorrow, come (arr. William Wigthorpe)
The Second Book of Songs (22)
My heavy sprite (arr. Ibrahim Aziz)
What greater griefe
Lie downe poore heart
Artists
Chelys Consort of ViolsEmma Kirkby (soprano)
James Akers (lute)
About
During this period in England, melancholia had become fashionable, especially in cultural and literary circles, and spawned countless poems, paintings and songs. When Dowland’s lute song Flow My Tears was published in 1600, the instrumental Lachrimae Pavan on which it was based had been in circulation for several years and was the composer’s ‘number one hit’ both in England and on the continent – and four years after the song, he returned to the music and varied it in the ‘seven tears’ for viol consort and lute.
Colleagues of Dowland such as Robert Jones and John Danyel explored similar moods and emotions in their own songs, sometimes – as in Danyel’s Eyes look no more – making clear allusions to Dowland’s famous pavan. The Chelys Consort of Viols released their first disc in 2015 to critical acclaim. For the present recording they are joined by lutenist James Akers, and Emma Kirkby, the English soprano who has long been a leading figure in the field of early music.
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