Est 1923

Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach

A lovely reminder of the younger Bream’s pioneering solo recitals

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach, John Dowland

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

Stereo
ADD

Catalogue Number: 477 7550

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Galliards, Movement: The Queenes Galliard, P97 (Margaret Board Lute Boo John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Pavan: Lachrimae Antiquae John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Whites Nothing, P56 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Vauxes Gigge, P57 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Fantasies and Other Contrapuntal Pieces, Movement: Farwell, P3 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Settings of Ballads and Other Popular Tunes, Movement: Orlando Sleepeth, P61 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Fantasies and Other Contrapuntal Pieces, Movement: Fantasia, P101 (Hainhofer MS) John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) King of Denmark's Galliard John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Galliards, Movement: Melancholy Galliard, P25 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Pavans, Movement: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens, P9 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Almains, Movement: Almain, P49 John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Fornlorn Hope Fancy John Dowland, Composer
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: If fluds of tears could clense my follies past John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Sleepe wayward thoughts John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Awake sweet loue thou art returnd John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Deare if you change ile neuer chuse againe John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Oh what hath ouerwrought my all amazed thought John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Shall I striue with wordes to moue John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Flow not so fast ye fountaines John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Awaie with these selfe louing lads John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Come when I call, or tarrie till I come John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Rest awhile you cruell cares John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: If my complaints could passions moue John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Burst forth my teares John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Humor say what makst thou heere John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake (= The Earl of Essex Galliard) John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: His goulden locks time hath to siluer turnd John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Stay time a while thy flying John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: The lowest trees haue tops John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Vnquiet thoughts John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Praise blindnesse eies, for seeing is deceipt John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: My heart and tongue were twinnes John Dowland, Composer
Golden Age Singers
John Dowland, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movement: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Prelude Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Suite, Movement: Sarabande Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Suite, Movement: Bourrée Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Partita, Movement: Prelude Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Partita, Movement: Fugue Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Julian Bream, Lute
When, in 1950, a teenage Julian Bream happened upon Peter Warlock’s piano arrangements of some of John Dowland’s lute pieces, it was love at first sight. For almost the next 30 years, Bream would devote himself to both the lute and the guitar before relinquishing the former in favour of the latter (although he was to return to the lute many years later).

This wonderful two-CD set takes in three LPs originally released by Westminster during the mid-1950s. As Tully Potter mentions in the booklet-notes, the solo Dowland and Bach LPs are especially significant for having been the first, for a plucked-string instrument, to be entirely devoted to a single composer. Also included is a selection of Dowland’s ayres for lute and four voices, in which Bream is joined by the Golden Age Singers (on the strength of these performances, Golden Tone might be more appropriate).

Ideas about what constitutes an authentic approach to early music fluctuate over time, but Art never goes out of fashion. Yes, Bream uses a wholly guitaristic technique on the lute (including the use of nails – but then Baroque lutenists like Piccinini also used them); yes, his phrasing and sense of timbre bear Segovia’s influence to an uncommon degree. But Bream’s genius transcends all. Whether it’s in the astonishing intensity of Dowland’s Melancholy Galliard and Forlorn Hope Fancy or in the finely proportioned sense of pace and drama in Bach’s Chaconne, the impression is ultimately of a meeting of equals. What a fitting tribute to a master musician in his 75th birthday year!

Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach

Galliards, Movement: The Queenes Galliard, P97 (Margaret Board Lute Boo

Pavan: Lachrimae Antiquae

Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Whites Nothing, P56

Jigs, Corantos, Toys, etc, Movement: Mrs Vauxes Gigge, P57

Fantasies and Other Contrapuntal Pieces, Movement: Farwell, P3

Settings of Ballads and Other Popular Tunes, Movement: Orlando Sleepeth, P61

Fantasies and Other Contrapuntal Pieces, Movement: Fantasia, P101 (Hainhofer MS)

(The) King of Denmark's Galliard

Galliards, Movement: Melancholy Galliard, P25

My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe

Pavans, Movement: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens, P9

Almains, Movement: Almain, P49

Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral

Fornlorn Hope Fancy

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: If fluds of tears could clense my follies past

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Sleepe wayward thoughts

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Awake sweet loue thou art returnd

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Deare if you change ile neuer chuse againe

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Oh what hath ouerwrought my all amazed thought

(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Shall I striue with wordes to moue

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Flow not so fast ye fountaines

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Awaie with these selfe louing lads

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: Come when I call, or tarrie till I come

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Rest awhile you cruell cares

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: If my complaints could passions moue

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Burst forth my teares

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Humor say what makst thou heere

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake (= The Earl of Essex Galliard)

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: His goulden locks time hath to siluer turnd

(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: Stay time a while thy flying

(The) Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires, Movement: The lowest trees haue tops

(The) First Book of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Vnquiet thoughts

(The) Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, Movement: Praise blindnesse eies, for seeing is deceipt

(A) Pilgrimes Solace, Movement: My heart and tongue were twinnes

(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movement: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Prelude

Suite, Movement: Sarabande

Suite, Movement: Bourrée

Partita, Movement: Prelude

Partita, Movement: Fugue

Prelude, Fugue and Allegro

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