Dowland & Britten: Melancholy, Nocturnal

Britten, Benjamin, Dowland, John

Boels, Pascal

97013

John Dowland is without doubt one of the most famous English composers, the foremost exponent of the Golden Age of the Elizabethan Era of the 16th and 17th Century.

Dowland’s works fully reflect the spirit and tastes of the Elizabethan age, with their tendency towards deep melancholy and their pronounced focus on darkness, moonlight and nighttime. Despite the predominance of grief, sadness, tears and death there are also works in which a sense of optimism, lightness and joy prevail.

This new recording presents a selection of famous and favourite lute works by Dowland, played on guitar: Lachrimae, Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe, The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard, Mignarda, Dowland’s Galliard and many more.

As a fitting addition and tribute Pascal Boëls plays the homage to Dowland by Benjamin Britten, titled “Nocturnal” after John Dowland.

Played by Pascal Boëls, who is regarded as one of the best current specialists of the ten-string guitar, with the extension of the bass notes which permits an exact fidelity to the musical text.

Works:

•Britten: Nocturne after John Dowland op.70
• John Dowland: A Fantasie
• John Dowland: The most high and mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, his Galliard
• John Dowland: Melancholy Galliard
• John Dowland: Lady Hunson's Puffe
• John Dowland: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
• John Dowland: Forlorn Hope Fancy
• John Dowland: The right honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby, his Galliard
• John Dowland: The most sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard
• John Dowland: A Fancy (3 Versionen)
• John Dowland: The right honourable Earl of Essex, his Galliard
• John Dowland: Tarleton’s Riserrectione
• John Dowland: Dowland’s first Galliard
• John Dowland: Fortune
• John Dowland: My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home
• John Dowland: Mignarda
• John Dowland: Mr. Dowland’s Midnight
• John Dowland: Lachrimae

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