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ANDREAS SCHOLL
"Crystal Tears"
John Dowland, John Ward, William Byrd etc
HMC 901993
CD + bonus DVD
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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: a performance of the Song ‘Venus’ birds’ and a ‘beyond the microphones’ documentary on the making of this recording.
"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'...exquisitely played by Julian Behr. For fans of both Dowland and Scholl, this is a collector’s item."
4 STARS, CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK, Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times
“Andreas Scholl gives intensely emotive accounts of these works, drawing on a range of musical and rhetorical gestures to underscore the brooding texts… there is some magical singing here, and Scholl is supported by instrumental playing of rare subtlety and finesse.”
4 STARS, Kate Bolton, BBC Music Magazine
"The exquisite melancholy pervading the disc, and its companion DVD, is the perfect balm to beguile you through a wistful summer evening."
Anthony Holden, THE OBSERVER
Artists:
Andreas Scholl, c-ten.
Julian Behr, lut.
Concerto di Viole
Works:
1 Go crystal tears John Dowland 6'29
2 Fantasia no.4 John Ward 3'30
3 Now, O now, I needs must part John Dowland 4'32
4 Go nightly cares John Dowland 4"'02
5 Fantasia no.3 John Ward 2'55
6 Sorrow, come! John Dowland 3'59
7 Semper Dowland semper dolens John Dowland 3'31
8 The Lady Rich her galliard John Dowland 2'03
9 Have you seen the bright lily grow? Robert Johnson 2'51
10 Though Amaryllis dance in green William Byrd 3'43
11 Venus' birds whose mournful tunes John Benet 3'35
12 Full fathom five Robert Johnson 2'10
13 Care-charming sleep Robert Johnson 3'38
14 Like as the day Patrick Mando 4'03
15 A Fancy John Dowland 3'29
16 Time stands still John Dowland 4'39
17 Four-note pavan Alfonso Ferrabosco II 4'49
18 From silent night John Dowland 4'06
19 O Death, rock me asleep Anonymous 2'57
20 Fantasia no.13 Richard Mico 3'18
21 Come, heavy sleep John Dowland 5'02
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