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Dowland : In darkness. Mélodies. Chance, Beier.
Format : 1 CD Digipack
Total Time : 01:18:19

Recording : 2011-2014
Location : Nomaglio
Country : Italie
Sound : Eglise / Stereo

Label : Stradivarius
Catalog No. : STR33914
EAN : 8011570339140
Price Code : DM021A

Publishing Year : 2015
Release Date : 28/10/2015

Genre : Classical
John Dowland (1562-1626)
Preludium
In darkness let me dwell
Viscount's Lisle's Galliard
Sweet stay a while
A fancy
In this trembling shadow cast
Henry Guilforde's Almaine
Shall I strive
A Fancy
Farre from triumphing court
Coranto
Stay time a while
An Almand
Lady if you so spight me
Pavan
Tell me true love
Galliard to Lachrimae
Thou mightie God

Michael Chance, contre-ténor
Paul Beier, luth

Un luth, un contre-tenor, des oeuvres du dernier Dowland (période semper dolens...), et une grande heure de musique à tenir sans que la lassitude ne s'installe. Défi brillamment relevé par Paul Beier, maître d'oeuvre de ce récital, où les pièces pour luth seul ne sont pas de simples transitions entre les songs : il s'agit d'un véritable voyage qui commence avec l'emblématique In darkness let me dwell pour se terminer sur le prémonitoire Thou mightie god : après la série d'échecs qui suivit des débuts brillants, Dowland retrouva à la toute fin de sa vie la faveur de la Cour. Entre ces deux bornes, les états d'âme du compositeur, entre aigreur et abattement, avec un relatif sursaut parfois. Malgré un timbre émacié et des aigus un peu serrés, Michael Chance impressionne par sa technique. La messa di voce est si subtilement dosée que les premières notes de In darkness émergent affleurent du silence. Par une émission d’une pureté presque instrumentale, il parvient à une neutralité qui confine à l’abstraction. Un disque pensé et pourpensé, exigeant donc, mais fascinant. (Olivier Gutierrez)

John Dowland was “now entered into the fiftieth yeare of mine age” in 1612 when he published in the A pilgrimes solace, his fourth and final book of lute songs and his last published work. There was a nine year gap between this and the third song book (1603), printed while he was still serving King Christian IV of Denmark (he returned to England in 1606), but he was certainly not inactive during this period: his consort collection Lachrimae or Seaven Teares dates from 1604, in 1609 he published an English translation of Andreas ornithoparcus’s musical treatise Musicae activae micrologus (1517), and in 1610 his hand is heavily present, both as composer, theorist and translator, in two works that were printed in the name of his son, Robert – the Varietie of Lute-Lessons, a large collection of English and continental lute music, and A Musicall Banquet, which, as the title page explains, contains a “varietie of delicious Ayres, Collected out of the best Authors in English, French, Spanish and Italian.” In his mind, John Dowland was truly living “in darkness,” and the theme of darkness permeates of the lyrics of many of his last songs, the most emblematic of which is In darkness let me dwell [Track 1]. I have chosen to accompany this selection of late Dowland songs with solo lute music taken from late sources.

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