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Dowland: Complete Lachrimae / Musicall Humors Viol Consort

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Details

Composer
John Dowland
Artist
Musicall Humors, Myriam Rignol, Lucile Boulanger, Julien Leonard, Nicholas Milne, Josh Cheatham, Tho
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Apr 14, 2023
Catalog #
ALPHA944
UPC
3760014199448

About

‘London, April 1604. With the freshly printed partbooks of his Lachrimae under his arm, John Dowland walks from the printing house to his home in Fetter Lane. He should have been back in Denmark long ago, but for the moment all his thoughts are on the new publication he is carrying, his latest and most ambitious work to date: a complete cycle of instrumental music, twenty-one dances, honourably dedicated to Anne of Denmark, Queen of England.’ For Dowland has just completed one of the greatest masterpieces of Renaissance music. He had left England to enter the service of the Danish court, disappointed at not being appointed court composer to Elizabeth I, but he seems to have made the best of all his setbacks to compose this magnificent collection of purely instrumental works, much of it bathed in the melancholy typical of late sixteenth-century England.

Musicall Humors – a collective of the finest gambists of their generation – performs the complete set of pavans, galliards and ‘almands’, grouped into suites, each with its own character. A character inspired by the music, but reinforced here by the changing composition of the consort and the players taking turns to perform the ‘top line’, so that each musician’s personal playing style gives each piece a specific colour.

REVIEWS:

Dunford immerses the five-person gamba ensemble led by Julien Léonard and Lucile Boulanger in a rich and often extremely fragile-seeming web of voices and moods with a composure and sovereignty that moves and inspires. Everything breathes in the most wonderfully sonorous interplay, nothing groaning excessively. And when they dance, they maintain their posture and dignity like a dream.

-- ConcertoNet

We are faced with an absolutely referential recording, of intense and unprecedented beauty. Musicall Humors offers us the complete collection, but in a sequence of pavans followed by galliards, which refreshes our ears with the contrast, compared to the usual arrangement.

-- Scherzo

 

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 I. Lachrimae Antiquae 04:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Lachrimae Antiquae
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  2. 2 XXI. The King of Denmarks Galiard 02:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    XXI. The King of Denmarks Galiard
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  3. 3 II. Lachrimae Antiquae Nouae 04:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Lachrimae Antiquae Nouae
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  4. 4 XI. Sir John Souch his Galiard 01:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    XI. Sir John Souch his Galiard
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  5. 5 III. Lachrimae Gementes 04:40
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Lachrimae Gementes
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  6. 6 IX. M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard 02:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    IX. M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  7. 7 IV. Lachrimae Tristes 05:11
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Lachrimae Tristes
    Duration
    05:11
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  8. 8 X. M. Giles Hobies Galiard 01:32
    Track
    8
    Title
    X. M. Giles Hobies Galiard
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  9. 9 V. Lachrimae Coactae 05:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    V. Lachrimae Coactae
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  10. 10 XIX. The Earle of Essex Galiard 01:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    XIX. The Earle of Essex Galiard
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  11. 11 VI. Lachrimae Amantis 05:20
    Track
    11
    Title
    VI. Lachrimae Amantis
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  12. 12 XVIII. Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard 01:28
    Track
    12
    Title
    XVIII. Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  13. 13 VII. Lachrimae Verae 05:25
    Track
    13
    Title
    VII. Lachrimae Verae
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  14. 14 XX. M. Henry Noel his Galiard 01:58
    Track
    14
    Title
    XX. M. Henry Noel his Galiard
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  15. 15 XII. Sir Henry Umptons Funerall 05:17
    Track
    15
    Title
    XII. Sir Henry Umptons Funerall
    Duration
    05:17
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  16. 16 XVI. M. Buctons Galiard 01:36
    Track
    16
    Title
    XVI. M. Buctons Galiard
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  17. 17 XV. M. John Langtons Pavan 04:58
    Track
    17
    Title
    XV. M. John Langtons Pavan
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  18. 18 XVII. M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with 2 Trebles 01:26
    Track
    18
    Title
    XVII. M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with 2 Trebles
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  19. 19 XIII. M. George Whitehead his Almand 01:36
    Track
    19
    Title
    XIII. M. George Whitehead his Almand
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  20. 20 XIV. Mistresse Nichols Almand 01:55
    Track
    20
    Title
    XIV. Mistresse Nichols Almand
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors
  21. 21 VIII. Semper Dowland semper dolens 06:35
    Track
    21
    Title
    VIII. Semper Dowland semper dolens
    Duration
    06:35
    Composer
    John Dowland
    Ensemble
    Musicall Humors