Artist: Musicall Humors
Title: Dowland: [Complete] Lachrimæ
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Alpha Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: flac 24bits - 96.0kHz + Booklet
Total Time: 01:10:30
Total Size: 1.25 gb

Tracklist

01. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae antiquae
02. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: The King of Denmark's Galliard
03. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae antiquae novae
04. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Sir John Souch his Galliard
05. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae gementes
06. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith his Galliard
07. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae tristes
08. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Giles Hobies Galliard
09. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae coactae
10. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: The Earl of Essex Galliard
11. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae amantis
12. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Captain Digorie Piper his Galliard
13. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae verae
14. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Henry Noel his Galliard
15. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral
16. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Bucton's Galliard
17. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
18. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Thomas Collier his Galliard
19. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. George Whitehead his Almand
20. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mistress Nichols Almand
21. Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Semper Dowland semper dolens

‘London, April 1604. With the freshly printed partbooks of his Lachrimæ under his arm, John Dowland walks from the printing house to his home in Fetter Lane. He should have been back in Denmark long ago, but for the moment all his thoughts are on the new publication he is carrying, his latest and most ambitious work to date: a complete cycle of instrumental music, twenty-one dances, honourably dedicated to Anne of Denmark, Queen of England.’ For Dowland has just completed one of the greatest masterpieces of Renaissance music. He had left England to enter the service of the Danish court, disappointed at not being appointed court composer to Elizabeth I, but he seems to have made the best of all his setbacks to compose this magnificent collection of purely instrumental works, much of it bathed in the melancholy typical of late sixteenth-century England. Musicall Humors – a collective of the finest gambists of their generation – performs the complete set of pavans, galliards and ‘almands’, grouped into suites, each with its own character. A character inspired by the music, but reinforced here by the changing composition of the consort and the players taking turns to perform the ‘top line’, so that each musician’s personal playing style gives each piece a specific colour.