Dowland: A Fancy
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JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: A Fancy
Bor Zuljan (lute)
[ Ricercar / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 August 2020
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The first notes of the descending chromatic theme break the silence and it seems as if time has stopped. The listener is drawn into the world of John Dowland, the greatest lutenist of all, in a journey through multiple shades of melancholy and lucent hope. Never before had the lute sounded as expressive and colourful as in these masterful Fancies, as dynamic as in these sparkling dances: Renaissance lute music here reached its summit. Bor Zuljan explores these qualities in his debut solo recording, breathing new life into Dowland's masterpieces.
GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Instrumental
"This is an original, improvisatory yet often deeply introspective recital, masterfully curated, mainly of Dowland's fantasias for solo lute, 'remarkable masterpieces of counterpoint, rhetoric, architecture and virtuosity'… has any [recording] so accurately captured our flawed selves in this distorting infinity mirror hall of Renaissance counterpoint and variations on songs and dances which Dowland himself distorted through endless improvisation?" Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2020
"Zuljan's eclectic background as a guitarist, oud player and lutenist, combined with musical tastes that range from medieval to jazz, makes him highly responsive to the varied hues of Dowland's palette...Zuljan plays an eight-course 'tenor' lute from which he draws a range of colours and timbres - here limpid, there muted; he even seems to turn the lute into an exoticsounding Arabic oud at times." BBC Music
Tracks:
1. Fantasia P71
2. A Dream
3. Tremolo' Fancy (P73)
4. Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)
5. Preludium
6. A Fancy, P. 5
7. Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15
8. Forlorn Hope Fancy (Fantasie No. 2)
9. Galliard to Lachrimae
10. A Fancy, P. 6
11. Mounsier's Almaine
12. Fantasie P1a
13. Lady Clifton's Spirit
14. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
15. Sir John Smith, His Almain
16. Fortune my foe
17. A Fancy, P. 7
18. Farewell Fancy
