Dowland & Benjamin - Seven Tears Upon Silence
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Label: Evidence Classics
Cat No: EVCD034
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 14th July 2017
Contents
Artists
Sit FastSarah Breton (mezzo-soprano)
Karl Nyhlin (lute)
Works
Upon Silence for mezzo-soprano and 5 violsLachrimae, or Seaven Teares (7)
Artists
Sit FastSarah Breton (mezzo-soprano)
Karl Nyhlin (lute)
About
The viol also features in George Benjamin’s Upon Silence, written in 1990 for five viols and mezzo-soprano, based on a poem by Yeats, which extends and updates the poetic tears of John Dowland.
Four centuries separate the two composers but with themes of grief, polyphonic writing and viol consort in common, they are elegantly recorded by the Sit Fast consort.
“These short, dense pieces have a mesmerising purity, squeezing dissonances with ghostly quietude...The French ensemble Sit Fast has already recorded Bach’s Art of Fugue. This is a natural next step, if backwards in chronology, played with elegance and precision.” - The Guardian
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