What do John Dowland, Fleetwood Mac & The Beatles have in common?

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  • AuntDaisy
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    • Jun 2018
    • 1603

    What do John Dowland, Fleetwood Mac & The Beatles have in common?

    Wednesday's New Generation Artists, "From Britten to the Beetles", was a bit of an odd mixture (the R3 norm?), but did have some Early Music...

    From Britten to The Beatles
    New Generation Artists

    Current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme in music ranging from the melancholy songs of John Dowland to the passion of Waxman's Carmen Fantasy. And, between them, a performance of the quartet that Benjamin Britten wrote in 1945 to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of English composer Henry Purcell.

    Franz Waxman : Carmen Fantasy
    Geneva Lewis (violin), Ryan Corbett (accordion)

    Dowland: Can she excuse
    Fleetwood Mac / Christine McVie: Songbird
    The Beatles: Blackbird
    Dowland: In Darkness let me Dwell
    Hugh Cutting (counter tenor) Daniel Murphy (lute)

    Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op.36
    Leonkoro Quartet

    Duparc: Extase
    Duparc L'invitation au voyage
    Johanna Wallroth (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)

    Richard Rodgers: Spring's Here
    Fergus McCreadie (solo piano)
    Waxman's Carmen Fantasy, Britten's 2nd Quartet and songs by Dowland, Duparc & The Beatles.
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30205

    #2
    Oh, I thought you were just setting us a riddle. I was going to suggest: the blues
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • AuntDaisy
      Host
      • Jun 2018
      • 1603

      #3
      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Oh, I thought you were just setting us a riddle. I was going to suggest: the blues

      John Shea did mention the cult of melancholy, so I think you win.

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      • smittims
        Full Member
        • Aug 2022
        • 4034

        #4
        They all went to Denmark?

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37559

          #5
          I wait with interest to find out what Duparc has to do with these three ***iconic*** institutions!

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          • Ein Heldenleben
            Full Member
            • Apr 2014
            • 6726

            #6
            All three use a tuned and fretted multi stringed instrument to accompany the human voice.
            All three set multi verse lyrics
            All three wrote love songs
            All three frequently use modal harmonies and keys
            So they have quite a lot in common really.

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12765

              #7
              .

              ... o, it's all part of bluddy "British Music", innit

              .

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              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8396

                #8
                John Dowland: Flow My Tears
                The Beatles: My Guitar Gently Weeps
                Fleetwood Mac: Like Crying

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                • cloughie
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22110

                  #9
                  Dowland: Come again sweet love

                  Beatles: All you need is love

                  Fleetwood Mac: I need your love so bad

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8396

                    #10
                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    Dowland: Come again sweet love

                    Beatles: All you need is love

                    Fleetwood Mac: I need your love so bad
                    Come, come, come .....
                    John Dowland: Come, Again
                    Beatles: Come Together
                    Fleetwood Mac: Come A Little Closer

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                    • oliver sudden
                      Full Member
                      • Feb 2024
                      • 586

                      #11
                      “John”.

                      (Dowland, Lennon, McVie)
                      Last edited by oliver sudden; 03-09-24, 06:58.

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22110

                        #12
                        Black

                        Dowland: Welcome Black Night

                        Beatles: Baby’s in Black

                        Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman

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                        • LMcD
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2017
                          • 8396

                          #13
                          It's the ladies' turn .....
                          Dowland: I Saw My Lady Weepe
                          Beatles: Lady Madonna
                          Fleetwood Mac: Sentimental Lady

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