Choice: 'These are poignant performances of music steeped in melancholy and given a deep beauty by Elizabeth Kenny and Phantasm, led by Laurence Dreyfus: a really wonderful Dowland recording.'
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Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears
Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears
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- Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae AntiquaeComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Antiquae
04:02$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Antiquae NovaeComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
03:28$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae GementesComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Gementes
03:36$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae TristesComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Tristes
03:50$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae CoactaeComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Coactae
03:17$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae AmantisComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Amantis
03:56$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae VeraeComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Lachrimae Verae
04:02$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Nicholas Gryffith his GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Nicholas Gryffith his Galliard
01:47$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Sir John Souch his GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Sir John Souch his Galliard
01:30$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Semper Dowland semper DolensComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Semper Dowland semper Dolens
06:20$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Giles Hoby his GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Giles Hoby his Galliard
01:19$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: The King of Denmark's GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: The King of Denmark's Galliard
01:53$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Bucton his GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Bucton his Galliard
01:16$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: The Earl of Essex GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: The Earl of Essex Galliard
01:17$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Captain Piper his GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Captain Piper his Galliard
01:23$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Henry Noell his GalliardComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Henry Noell his Galliard
01:58$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Thomas Collier his Galliard with two treblesComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr Thomas Collier his Galliard with two trebles
01:22$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Sir Henry Umpton's FuneralComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral
04:15$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr George Whitehead his AlmanComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr George Whitehead his Alman
01:46$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mrs Nichols's AlmanComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mrs Nichols's Alman
01:10$2.30 - Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr John Langton's PavanComposer(s) John DowlandArtist(s) Elizabeth Kenny: lute Phantasm
Lachrimae or Seven Tears: Mr John Langton's Pavan
03:55$2.30
Total running time: 57 minutes.
Album information
John Dowland's gifts as an exceptional melodist are evident throughout Lachrimae or Seven Tears, an artistic achievement which has cast a remarkable spell on early music.
This wonderful album has won two major Early Music awards: the 2017 Gramophone Award and the 2017 Diapason d'or de l'année. It was also named a Building A Library: 'First Choice' by BBC Radio 3 - Record Review.
Summing up the Renaissance preoccupation with melancholy, this extraordinary collection of dance music for viols and lute includes Dowland's 'signature' piece, Semper Dowland semper Dolens. Dowland reveals a personal world of sublime sadness, grief, anger and melancholy mollified by moments of joy and gladness.
A skilled lutenist, Dowland's intricately-worked parts demand perfect synchronicity between Phantasm and Elizabeth Kenny, who rise to the technical and tempi challenges of marrying their instruments.
The popularity of Dowland's music in his own lifetime continued through the centuries with Lawes, Jenkins and Gibbons all paying homage to Dowland's 'Tears'. Although freed from lyric constraints poetic images linger prompting Phantasm's Laurence Dreyfus to describe this as ‘the most sensuously tuneful hour of music ever written'.
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'... at no point here does the music’s bittersweet melancholy threaten to wrap us in dreary gloom or falsely conceived mawkishness.'
Klassik.com
'The lush dissonances teased out during the pavans were deliciously wistful and the rhythmic interplay displayed in the dance movements gave an infectious, impish quality with a real swing.'
The Arts Desk
'...undoubtedly one of the best in the discography.'
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