An album of solemn, slow-moving counterpoint is admittedly not the most joyous of picks, but John Dowlands journey in his Lachrimae through seven kinds of sadness — sighing tears, forced tears and true tears among them — is sublimely melancholy. Each is beautifully shaped in this performance by musicians led by Baroque violinist John Holloway playing Baroque violins, violas and a bass viola (rather than the viol and lute group Dowland originally called for). And its not all doom and gloom, as the pavanes are tempered by lovely music by Purcell, William Lawes, John Jenkins, Thomas Morley and Matthew Locke.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:38:19 +0000
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