'Lessons' - Lute Music by John Dowland

 
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JOHN DOWLAND
'Lessons' - Lute Music by John Dowland
Jonas Nordberg (lute)

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Release Date: Friday 3 June 2022

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In English Renaissance collections of music, the term lessons is often used to describe instrumental pieces, even though they arent pedagogical exercises as such. But as Jonas Nordberg writes in an introduction to his new disc there remains much in them to be studied. John Dowland is one of the composers whose music was a driving force of the Early Music revival already at the beginning of the 20th century. He has also played a central role in the rediscovery of the lute itself, an ongoing process which began more than a hundred years ago.Like many other musicians, Jonas Nordberg is continuously exploring the intimate relationship between a score and the instrument it was written for: The pieces by Dowland on this album contain an entire musical universe, in which I have spent many years, discovering new layers of meaning. In that way these lessons in combination with the instrument on which I play them have also been my teachers. So it is a great pleasure to invite you to share them with me, and to explore for yourselves the rich combination of melancholy, joy and beauty to be found in these works.

"Nordberg plays a gut-strung nine-course lute by Lars Jönsson after Tieffenbrucker. It's a warm, characterful instrument, serving him equally well in slow intricate fancies and quicker ternary song and dance forms" Gramophone

Tracks:

Prelude for lute
A Fancy
Frog Galliard
Farewell 'In Nomine' (Fantasie No. 4)
A Fancy, P. 6
Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard
Forlorn Hope Fancy (Fantasie No. 2)
Earl of Derby, his Galliard
Loth to Depart, P. 69
Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)
Solus Cum Sola
Sir John Smith, His Almain
Orlando Sleepeth
Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
The King of Denmark, His Galliard
A Fantasie
Captaine Pipers Pavin
A Fancy, P. 5
Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15
Galliard to Lachrimae