Dowland Lachrimae, etc
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Composer or Director: Carlo Farina, John Dowland, Samuel Scheidt, Antony Holborne, Heinrich Scheidemann, Johann Schop
Label: Classics
Magazine Review Date: 7/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 61
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 99175
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Tristes |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Coactae |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Amantis |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Verae |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Antiquae |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Antiqaue Novae |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Movement: Lachrimae Gementes |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Pavana Lachrimae |
Heinrich Scheidemann, Composer
Christian Rieger, Harpsichord Heinrich Scheidemann, Composer |
| Lachrime pavaen |
Johann Schop, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua Johann Schop, Composer |
| Consort Music, Movement: Semper Dowland semper dolens |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| (The) Image of Melancholy |
Antony Holborne, Composer
Antony Holborne, Composer Cologne Musica Antiqua Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Ander Theil neuer Paduanen, Gagliarden, Couranten., Movement: Pavane in A minor |
Carlo Farina, Composer
Carlo Farina, Composer Cologne Musica Antiqua Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
| Paduan a 4 |
Samuel Scheidt, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua Reinhard Goebel, Violin Samuel Scheidt, Composer |
| Pavane |
John Dowland, Composer
Cologne Musica Antiqua John Dowland, Composer Reinhard Goebel, Violin |
Author: John Duarte
The option of using violins instead of viols in the seven basic pavans of Lachrimae, taken by The Parley of Instruments, is here adopted by Musica Antiqua Koln using baroque instruments; their lines are a trifle thicker and less keen-edged, but they remain clear. To these seven are added Semper Dowland semper dolens, the eighth pavan, and the ‘Pauan’ dubiously ascribed to Dowland in Simpson’s Taffel-Consort (No. V a 4). Other works testify to the profound influence of the Lachrimae pavan both in England and in Europe: Schop’s profusely ornamented variations for accompanied violin, Scheidemann’s for harpsichord, and Holborne’s exquisite The Image of Melancholy. Neither Farina nor Scheidt draw directly on Lachrimae, though there are traces in Farina’s Pavane which suggest that it was at least in his subconscious, and Scheidt indulges in rich, descending chromatic progressions, worthy of Dowland in his Forlorne hope mode.
By the time Scheidt, the youngest of the composers in this recording, was dead, so too was the pavan (and the viol consort), displaced by the chaconne. However, Dowland’s Lachrimae was influential not only in its own time, but later (as Reinhard Goebel points out in his annotation) as ‘the first secular instrumental cycle in music history’, the precursor of Die Kunst der Fuge,L’estro armonico and Telemann’s Musique de table. Musica Antiqua Koln’s high reputation, which has rested almost exclusively on its performances of baroque music, may come to extend to that of the renaissance. It avoids dryness on the one hand and, subduing its customary love of hairpins, inappropriate demonstrativeness on the other in this well-conceived and beautifully recorded programme.'
By the time Scheidt, the youngest of the composers in this recording, was dead, so too was the pavan (and the viol consort), displaced by the chaconne. However, Dowland’s Lachrimae was influential not only in its own time, but later (as Reinhard Goebel points out in his annotation) as ‘the first secular instrumental cycle in music history’, the precursor of Die Kunst der Fuge,
Dowland Lachrimae, etc
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