Musicall Humors – Dowland: [Complete] Lachrimæ (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Musicall Humors – Dowland: [Complete] Lachrimæ (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:28 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

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.

Tracklist:

01. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae antiquae (04:56)
02. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: The King of Denmark’s Galliard (02:34)
03. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae antiquae novae (04:46)
04. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Sir John Souch his Galliard (01:33)
05. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae gementes (04:40)
06. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith his Galliard (02:01)
07. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae tristes (05:10)
08. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Giles Hobies Galliard (01:32)
09. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae coactae (05:06)
10. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: The Earl of Essex Galliard (01:29)
11. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae amantis (05:20)
12. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Captain Digorie Piper his Galliard (01:27)
13. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Lachrimae verae (05:25)
14. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Henry Noel his Galliard (01:57)
15. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Sir Henry Umpton’s Funeral (05:18)
16. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Bucton’s Galliard (01:36)
17. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. John Langton’s Pavan (04:57)
18. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. Thomas Collier his Galliard (01:26)
19. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mr. George Whitehead his Almand (01:36)
20. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Mistress Nichols Almand (00:54)
21. Musicall Humors – Lachrimae, or Seven Tears: Semper Dowland semper dolens (06:35)

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