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
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. The advertised melancholy builds to something of a climax about two-thirds of the way through, with the lute solo Lachrimae and the vocal pieces surrounding it, and rises emotionally again with the famous Come, heavy sleep (track 19). In these stretches Davies advances definitively from being another pretty voice to major-artist status. The Hyperion engineering team outdoes itself at Suffolk's ideal Potton Hall, capturing the deep spaces of this music whose essence is captured by the title of a much later composition, Music That Has Fallen Silent.–James Manheim
Performer:
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Thomas Dunford, lute
Tracklist:
John Dowland (1563-1626)
01. Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears
02. Come again, sweet love doth now invite
03. Go, crystal tears
04. Mrs Winter's Jump
05. I saw my lady weep
06. Flow, my tears, fall from your springs
07. Can she excuse my wrongs?
08. Behold a wonder here
09. Semper Dowland semper dolens
10. In darkness let me dwell
11. Time stands still
12. All ye whom Love or Fortune hath betrayed
13. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
14. Lachrimae
15. Come away, come sweet love
16. Shall I strive with words to move?
17. Burst forth, my tears
18. Fortune my foe
19. Come, heavy Sleep
20. Now, oh now I needs must part – The Frog Galliard
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Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford - The Art of Melancholy: Songs by John Dowland (2014)
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