Dowland: Lute Songs

Bellocq, Eric, Guillon, Damien

ZZT 110102

Nakład wyprzedany, ostatni egzemplarz Damien Guillon has chosen for his first solo recital disc a refined, subtle and melancholy repertoire, which he has gone on to explore in depth and polish in genuine chamber style with the lutenist Eric Bellocq, an expert in Renaissance music. Dowland is heir to the English polyphonic tradition (middle age conception) where words and music coincide not on meaning but through proportions generated by the planets, however he also explores the new modes of expression which were emerging on the continent related to italian renaissance which linked meaning of the words and musical effect, favoring harmony towards polyphony. His ambivalent attitude seems to have caught the attention of the performers on this recording. Damien Guillon and Éric Bellocq succeed in finding an unprecedented balance between these two facets of the composers art. Both singer and lutenist dramatise theirdiscourse by means of great variety of dynamics, yet without breaking up the polyphonic lines. • Jean-Luc

Works:
• Can She Excuse My Wrongs 2:41
•What Then Is Love but Mourning 2:05
• Come Away, Come Sweet Love 2:22
•Sir John Smith, His Almain 2:44
•Sorrow, Stay 3:33
•Burst Forth My Tears 4:24
•Galliard to Lachrimae 3:30
•Flow My Tears 4:04
•The Eglantine Branche 1:47
• A Shepherd in a Shade 2:32
• Away with These Self-Loving Lads 2:37
•The Gilly Flower 0:55
• Say Love If Ever Thou Didst Find 1:51
•Almayn 0:50

CD x 1

Zig Zag Territoires

10/04/2006

3760009292383