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Julian Bream - Julian Bream plays Dowland & Bach (2008)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 28, 2023
Julian Bream - Julian Bream plays Dowland & Bach (2008)

Julian Bream - Julian Bream plays Dowland & Bach (2008)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:20:59 | 590 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 4777550

The playing of many professional classical guitarists leaves me cold. Where they flawlessly execute a score, Bream has spaciously conceived the music using something it seems is in short supply- a disciplined imagination. Each note, instead of sounding like part of an automatic process, sounds conceived and executed deliberately. Bream attended conservatory, where he was told not to bring his "gypsy instrument".
Rogers Covey-Crump, Jakob Lindberg - John Dowland: The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1990)

Rogers Covey-Crump, Jakob Lindberg - John Dowland: The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 358 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Renaissance, Vocal | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-430 | Time: 01:15:37

John Dowland (1563–1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" (the basis of Benjamin Britten's 1963 composition for solo guitar, Nocturnal after John Dowland), "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and with the 20th century's early music revival, has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists. Dowland published his The First Booke of Songes or Ayres in London in 1597. It was one of the most influential and important musical publications of the history of the lute. This collection of lute-songs was set out in a way that allows performance by a soloist with lute accompaniment or various combinations of singers and instrumentalists.

Nigel North - John Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 18, 2023
Nigel North - John Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009)

Nigel North - John Dowland: Complete Lute Music (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:17:20 | 1,23 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.504016

Naxos has collected its four volume traversal of the lute music into a handy slipcase. All the volumes are available singly, but you can also buy the four together as a quartet of excellence, presided over by Nigel North, the acknowledged hero of the hour. What follows is a reprise of two volumes already reviewed - volumes 1 and 3 - and a look at volumes 2 and 4.
Joel Frederiksen, Ensemble Phoenix Munchen - John Dowland: Tell Me True Love (2016)

Joel Frederiksen, Ensemble Phoenix München - John Dowland: Tell Me True Love (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 62:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88985360712 | Recorded: 2015

The vocal work of Joel Frederiksen has both the character and expressivity judged the New York Times about the American bass baritone and lutenist Joel Frederiksen. In their new album the Munich-based musician and his ensemble Phoenix Munich tell stories about the theme of love. The works are from the famous English composer John Dowland (1563-1626). Well known songs such as In darkness let me dwell and Flow my teares combine Frederiksen with unknown, beautiful songs and well-listened instrumental pieces.
Mariana Flores, Hopkinson Smith - John Dowland: whose heavenly touch (2019)

Mariana Flores, Hopkinson Smith - John Dowland: whose heavenly touch (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 231 Mb | Total time: 56:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naive | # E8941 | Recorded: 2015

This recording, devoted to Dowland, seems to open a door onto a secret garden, one tended and cultivated by two artists already well known for opera and song recitals that distil the chamber music principle into its most intimate essence of expressive sound: soprano Mariana Flores and lutenist Hopkinson Smith.

Jonas Nordberg - Lessons: John Dowland (2022)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 26, 2022
Jonas Nordberg - Lessons: John Dowland (2022)

Jonas Nordberg - Lessons: John Dowland (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 72:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2627 | Recorded: 2021

In English Renaissance collections of music, the term ‘lessons’ is often used to describe instrumental pieces, even though they aren’t pedagogical exercises as such. But as Jonas Nordberg writes in an introduction to his new disc ‘there remains much in them to be studied’. John Dowland is one of the composers whose music was a driving force of the Early Music revival already at the beginning of the 20th century. He has also played a central role in the rediscovery of the lute itself, an ongoing process which began more than a hundred years ago.
Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford - The Art of Melancholy: Songs by John Dowland (2014)

Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford - The Art of Melancholy: Songs by John Dowland (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 304 Mb | Total time: 76:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68007 | Recorded: 2013

Countertenor Iestyn Davies has kept himself busy, releasing a steady stream of albums in the early 2010s that has propelled him to the top of his field. It's easy to see why people keep snapping them up: Davies has an unusually creamy voice and a gentle touch that make the music easy to settle into. The lute songs of John Dowland demand something more than a pleasant tone, however, and on this release Davies really shows what he can do. He's aided by an ideal collaborator in lutenist Thomas Dunford, and the delicacy and intricate ensemble of the pair is remarkable.
Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes (1990)

Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 275 Mb | Total time: 70:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre | # 425 889-2 | Recorded: 1976

In 1597 John Dowland (1563-1626) published his first collection of music, The First Book of Songs or Airs of Four Parts with Tableture for the Lute. A groundbreaking work in several respects, not least in that it was the first published collection of English lute songs, it success was immediate, and was reprinted several times. His Second Book of Songs or Airs (1600) shows the increasingly solo nature of the lute-song, as Dowland left the first eight songs as lute solos.
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XX - John Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Teares (1988)

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XX - John Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Teares (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 70:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Astrée Auvidis | # E 8701 | Recorded: 1987

John Dowland was no less famous for his misfortunes than for his works. This subtle, elusive and strangely-behaved character led rather an adventurous life. Hailed as an Anglorum Orpheus (or “Orpheus of the English”) of almost divine powers, he inspired more comments and praise than most great musicians of his generation. To comply with legend, we were to associate him only with tears, sleep and gloom, in the gallery of Shakespearian heroes he could be placed somewhere between Hamlet and Jaques in As You like It. Although the legend may be partly based on truth, the musician himself contributed a great deal to it in his various writings; these are the confessions of a man full of dissonances, at once vulnerable and ambitious, ingenuous and haughty – an egocentric ever at odds with a world by which he felt himself rejected.
Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke - John Dowland: Third Booke of Songes (1991)

Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke - John Dowland: Third Booke of Songes (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 72:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre | # 430 284-2 | Recorded: 1977

The superbly consistent quality of the Third Book of songs by John Dowland suggests that the earlier issues, First Book and Second Book also recorded by Anthony Rooley and the Consort of Musicke, were no mere flashes in the pan, but set the tone for the whole series.