John Dowland

(1563-1626)

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Andreas Scholl - Countertenor

Andreas Scholl - Countertenor

A Portrait by Uli Aumüller and Hanne Kaisik


Buxtehude:

Jubilate Domino

Dowland:

Lute Songs


Andreas Scholl (countertenor)

The film accompanies the internationally renowned countertenor Andreas Scholl to recitals in Dresden, Schwetzingen and his home town, Kiedrich. In interviews Andreas Scholl sheds light on his personal and artistic development. In bonus parts of the DVD Andreas Scholl sings John Dowland’s “Lute Songs“ and Dietrich Buxtehude’s “Jubilate Domino“. Directly after the recital, Scholl and his co-performers discuss the works and their interpretation of them. “What is the point of a recital, an opera, what is the purpose of music, presented to an audience by performers, communicators? Of course, the purpose of music and art in general, is to enlighten and inspire the human spirit. It is about stimulating – and shaping – both our hearts and our minds.” These and other questions Andreas Scholl wants to find out in this portrait.

“Scholl‘s voice is pure and beautiful in sound, his taste exquisite, his pitch and diction immaculate. It is inadequate to compare Andreas Scholl to many other countertenors now working, even the fi nest of them. Instead one is put in mind of legendary past masters.” (Fanfare Magazine)

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Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach

Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach


Bach, J S:

Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne

Prelude for Lute in C minor, BWV999

played in D minor

Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV996: Sarabande

Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV996: Bourrée

Prelude from Lute Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV997

played in A minor

Fugue from Lute Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV997

played in A minor

Prelude, Fugue & Allegro for Lute in E flat major, BWV998

played in D major

Dowland:

The most sacred Queene Elizabeth her Galliard

Lachrimae Antiquae

Mrs Whittes Nothing, P56

Mrs. Vaux Jig

A Fancy

Orlando Sleepeth

Fantasia P72

The King of Denmark, His Galliard

Melancholy Galliard

Lady Hunsdon's Puffe

Semper Dowland Semper Dolens

Almain

Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral

Forlorn Hope Fancy (Fantasie No. 2)

Ayres for 4 voices

Humour say what mak’st thou here

Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)

His golden locks

Stay time awhile thy flying

The lowest trees have tops

Unquiet thoughts

Praise blindness, eyes, for seeing is deceit

My heart and tongue were twins


Julian Bream (lute & guitar), Edith Steinbauer (treble viol), Beatrice Reichert (alto & tenor viol), Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol), Ernst Knava (bass viol) & Elizabeth Osborn (soprano)

The Golden Age Singers, Margaret Field-Hyde

The set comprises Bream’s solo Dowland LP (1954) – which was his debüt solo recording, played on lute - and his solo Bach LP (1956), both originally recorded on the Westminster label and justly celebrated at the time. Here they are brought together with a wide selection of Dowland ayres, sung by The Golden Age Singers with Bream’s lute accompaniment. The CD booklet has a newly commissioned note by Tully Potter, a personal friend of Julian Bream, and includes reproductions of the original LP covers, LP labels and photos of the artists.

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Garden of Early Delights

Garden of Early Delights


Bassano, G:

Susanne ung jour Motette from madrigali et canzone francese

Divisions on "Frais et gaillard" (madrigal by Clemens non Papa)

Castello:

Sonata sesta from 'Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo'

Dowland:

Sorrow, stay

Weepe you no more, sad fountaines

Eyck:

Wat zal men op den Avond doen

Derde, Doen Daphne d’over

Boffons Der Flutyen Lust-hof

Amarilli mia bella

Fontana:

Sonata sesta

Marini, B:

Passacalio

Per ogni sorte di strumento

Ortiz:

Recercada segunda from Tratado de glosas

Ricercada sobre Doulce memoire

Schop:

Lacrimae Pavan


Pamela Thorby (recorders) and Andrew Lawrence-King (harps and psaltery)

Garden of Early Delights is a mixed bouquet of diverse, joyous, unusual and eloquent pieces from the Renaissance and Early Baroque periods. Performed by Pamela Thorby on recorders and Andrew Lawrence-King on harps and psaltery, these are two virtuosic musicians unsurpassed in their respective fields.

“Pamela Thorby's tone is silvery, alert and her intonation is impeccable.” BBC Music Magazine

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Dowland: Ayres

Dowland: Ayres


Ensemble Orlando Gibbons, Gérard Lesne

These beautiful and melancholy “Ayres” by the English 16th century composer John Dowland may be seen as precursors of the songs of the Romantic period, two centuries later. They are performed here by the renowned combination of Gerard Lesne and the Ensemble Orlando Gibbons.

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Crystal Tears (+free dvd)
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John Bennet: Venus' birds whose mournful tunesplay

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John Dowland & his contemporaries


anon.:

O Death Rock me Asleep

Bennet:

Venus' birds whose mournful tunes

Byrd:

Though Amaryllis dance in green

Dowland:

Go Crystal tears

Now, O now, I needs must part

Go, nightly cares

Sorrow, come

Semper Dowland Semper Dolens

Lady Rich, her Galliard

A Fancy

Time stands still

From silent night

Come heavy sleep

Ferrabosco, A I:

Heare me O God (Four note Pavan)

Johnson, R:

Have you seen the bright lily grow?

Full fathom five

Care-charming sleep

Mando:

Like as the day

Mico:

Fantasia No. 13

Ward:

Fantasia No. 4

Fantasia No. 3


Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Julian Behr (lute)

Concerto di Viole

There are few pleasures more delightful than musical melancholy, especially when it flows from the pen of the finest Elizabethan poets and a composer whose name will be forever associated with that emotion: John Dowland. His lute songs and consort songs form the backbone of Andreas Scholl's latest recital. The countertenor has gathered his favourite partners around him in the service of this sublime vocal art, elegantly distilling its fragile instants of grace.The songs are adroitly interspersed with instrumental pieces by Dowland's contemporaries. Bonus DVD NTSC: a performance of the song 'Venus' birds' and a documentary on the making of this recording.Trailers available on harmoniamundi.com & Youtube. Since it was founded in Basel in 1989, Concerto di Viole has played as a permanent ensemble. Its four members all studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and each individual brings to it rich musical experience with well-known international ensembles.They have recorded a number of CDs including German Baroque cantatas with Andreas Scholl for harmonia mundi in 1998.

“There is surely no voice more ethereal-sounding among contemporary falsettists than Scholl’s, and he lavishes a ravishingly beautiful sound on the Dowland “hits”: Go, crystal tears; Now, oh now, I needs must part; From silent night; Come, heavy sleep. The danger of monotony is averted with the interspersing of viol Fantasias by John Ward and Richard Mico, and of Dowland’s lute solos, Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens, The Lady Rich, Her Galliard and A Fancy, exquisitely played by Julian Behr. For fans of both Dowland and Scholl, this is a collector’s item.” Sunday Times, 29th June 2008 Disc of the Week

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Anne Sophie von Otter - In My Element

Anne Sophie von Otter - In My Element


 

I let the music speak

No Wonder

(arr. by Elvis Costello and Ensemble)

I Want to Vanish

(arr. by Elvis Costello and Ensemble)

Bizet:

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen)

Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen)

Brahms:

He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten ein!

Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze

Chaminade:

Ah! si l'amour prenait

Mignonne, à l'amour j'ai lié

Dowland:

In darkness let me dwell

Grieg:

Haugtussa, Op. 67 No. 8 'Ved Gjætle-Bekken'

Haas, P:

Seven Songs in a Folk Style, Op. 18

(unreleased)

Handel:

Qui d'amor from Ariodante

The world, when day's career is run (Hercules)

When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Hercules)

Mahler:

Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen

Monteverdi:

Adagiati, Poppea - Oblivion soave (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

Disprezzata regina (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

A Dio, Roma! (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

Mozart:

Parto! Parto, ma tu ben moi (from La Clemenza di Tito)

Oh Dei, che smania è questa (La Clemenza di Tito)

Ah, qual gelido orror; Il padre adorato (from Idomeneo)

No, la morte io non pavento (Idomeno)

Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio (from Le nozze di Figaro)

Le nozze di Figaro, K492 - Voi che sapete

Offenbach:

Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffman)

Portez armes Vous aimez le danger… Ah! que j’aime les militaires!

Purcell:

When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) from Dido and Aeneas

Schubert:

Im Abendrot, D799

Erlkönig, D328

Schumann:

Süsser Freund

Die Meerfee Op. 125 No. 1

Strauss, R:

Ariadne auf Naxos: Composer's Aria: Sein wir wieder gut

Weill:

Buddy on the Nightshift

My ship

Surabaya Johnny (from Happy End)


Anne Sophie von Otter

“Smart, sophisticated and opinionated, Anne Sofie von Otter has become a star by doing exactly what she wants” (Opera News)

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Shakespeare's Englande

Shakespeare's Englande

Music of his Plays & People


anon.:

O, mistress mine

Greensleeves

Kemp's jigg (for lute)

Willow song

Love, love, nothing but love

Heartease

Byrd:

Fantasia a 5

Campion:

It fell on a summer's day

Dowland:

Tarleton's Riserrectione

Farnaby:

Jog On

Gibbons, O:

Fantazia

Johnson, R:

Where the bee sucks

Full fathom five

Care-charming sleep

Lawes, W:

Almain & ayre

Pavane

Lupo, T:

Ayre in C

Morley:

It was a lover and his lass

Nicholson, R:

No more, good herdsman

Wigthorpe:

I am not I, of such belief

Wilbye:

Ne reminiscaris


James Griffett (tenor), Brian Wright (lute)

English Consort of Viols, Nicholas McGegan

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The King's Singers Collection

The King's Singers Collection


Bennett, R R:

The seasons of his mercies

Berlin:

Blue skies

Brown, G M:

House of Winter

Byrd:

Nunc scio vere

Mass for four voices

Civitas Sancti Tui

In Nomine

Tu es pastor ovium

From Virgin's Womb / Rejoice, Rejoice

Chilcott:

Even Such is Time

Dering:

Ardens est cor meum

Dowland:

George Whitehead's Almand

M. Bucton's Galliard

Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral

Gesualdo:

Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Gibbons, O:

Viol fantasia

Hill, J:

Remembered Love

Joel:

Lullabye 'Goodnight my Angel'

Kodály:

Esti dal

Kreek:

Taaveti laulud

Lennon & McCartney:

Blackbird

McCabe:

Scenes in America Deserta

Philips, P:

Ave Maria gratia plena

Credo (from 4 part Mass)

Pott:

Mr Tresham: His Ducke

Sibelius:

Rakastava, JS160a (text: Kanteletar)

Talbot:

The Wishing Tree

Tallis:

Spem in alium for eight five-part choirs '40-part Motet'

includes interview with the King's Singers

trad.:

Down to the River to Pray

Weelkes:

O Lord how joyful is the King

Young, N:

After the Goldrushs


Andrew Swait (treble)

The King's Singers & Concordia

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Britten & Dowland - Lute Songs

Britten & Dowland - Lute Songs


Britten:

Nocturnal, Op. 70

after John Dowland

guitar solo by Craig Ogden

Dowland:

Unquiet thoughts

Say love if ever thou didst find

Sorrow, stay

Away with these self-loving lads

Fantasia No. 7 from A Varietie of Lute Lessons

Come away, come, sweet love

Sleep, wayward thoughts

Come heavy sleep

Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)

I must complain

If my complaints could passions move

Captain Digorie Pipers Galliard

What if I never speed?

To ask for all thy love

Now, O now, I needs must part

In darkness let me dwell


Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Mark Padmore is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest tenors working today, celebrated in the opera house, the concert hall and as a peerless recording artist. He is admired—among other things—for his ‘extraordinary diction and whispering chamber-like intimacy … [his] joy in conveying the emotional core of each situation’ (Gramophone)

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The Elfin Knight - Ballads & Dances

The Elfin Knight - Ballads & Dances


anon.:

Whittingham Faire (The Elfin Knight)

Walsingham

Greensleeves

Farewell, adieu that courtly life

Brave Lord Willoughby

Willie O' Winsbury

The Lovers' Tasks (The Elfin Knight)

Farewell, lovely Nancy

Watkin's Ale

London's Lotterie

Barbara Ellen

London

Scarborough Faire (The Elfin Knight)

Rowallen Lute Book (C.1620) - Gigue, Untitled and Corne Yairds

Ane Scottis Dance

Dowland:

Go From My Window

My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home

Ravenscroft, T:

Yonder comes a courteous Knight

Vallet:

La bouree


Joel Frederiksen (bass)

Ensemble Phoenix

Telling stories in song is the vocation of Joel Frederiksen, a deep bass with an exceptional timbre. Accompanying himself on the lute oraccompanied by his own ensemble based in Munich, this extraordinary musician invites us to discover popular ballads belonging to both English and American traditions. His scrupulous research brings back to vivid life a forgotten world, redolent of the age of chivalry.

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