Dowland: Melancholy; Britten: Nocturnal - Guitar Music / Boëls

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
October 27, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Benjamin Britten, John Dowland
    • PERFORMER
      Pascal Boels
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 27, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421970134
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97013
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Guitar
    Works ⌄

    1. Fantasia in G major, P. 1 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    2. The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, his Galliard, P. 40 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    3. Melancholy Galliard, P. 25 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    4. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe, P. 54 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    5. Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard, P. 19 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    6. Forlorn Hope, P. 2 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    7. The Right Honourable the Lady Clifton's Spirit, P. 45 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    8. The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard, P. 41 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    9. Fantasia in G Minor, P. 6 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    10. The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard, P. 38 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    11. Tarleton's Resurrection, P. 59 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    12. Galliard in G minor, P. 22, "Dowland's First Galliard" (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    13. Fantasia in G Major, P. 73, "Tremolo" (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    14. Fortune my foe, P. 62 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    15. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, P. 66 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    16. Mignarda, P. 34 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    17. Fantasia in D minor, P. 5 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    18. Mr. Dowland's Midnight, P. 99 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    19. Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15 (arr. for 10-string guitar)

      Composer: John Dowland

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    20. I. Musingly

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    21. II. Very agitated

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    22. III. Restless

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    23. IV. Uneasy

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    24. V. March-like

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    25. VI. Dreaming

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    26. VII. Gently rocking

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls

    27. VIII. Passacaglia

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Pascal Boëls


Pavans and galliards by the Elizabethan master of melancholy, complemented by a new recording of Benjamin Britten’s magnificent Nocturnal inspired by both Dowland’s music and by the playing of Julian Bream. After the success of ‘The Golden Age of the Guitar in Europe’ (2CD, 96157), Brilliant Classics releases a second album by the French guitarist Pascal Boëls, a unique collection of music by 17th and 20th-century English masters. In a booklet introduction, the guitarist explains how he sees Dowland as ‘a universal genius, eternal wanderer who – already! – knew how to rub shoulders with all facets of the human soul.’ Pascal Boëls plays a personal selection of Dowland’s piece originally written for solo lute, pieces which embody a spirit of introversion such as the ‘Forlorn Hope’ Fancy and the ‘Lachrymae’ Pavan which became famous across Europe, much imitated and adapted by other composers of the day.

Lightening the mood are also the kind of courtly dances and romances which delighted the composer’s aristocratic patrons such as the Earl of Essex and King Christian of Denmark. The English guitarist Julian Bream played Dowland’s pieces on the guitar from an early stage of his career, and made a best-selling album of them for RCA. It was this antique palette of gentle, musing expression that inspired Benjamin Britten to write a Nocturnal for guitar which builds as a sequence of eight variations towards (rather than away from) the Dowland song on which they are based. The resulting work, according to Bream, was the greatest solo work ever written for guitar, exploring a slippage between wakeful and dream states with a subtle ambiguity between major and minor harmonies and a language that bridges the divide between the 17th and 20th centuries.