Thomas Dunford plays Dowland

[doversoul1]

Apologies for double posting but too many HGVs on the Performance Board

Lunchtime Concert: Monday 31 December

Today Sarah Walker presents a recital of music by John Dowland, the greatest Elizabethan lutenist, who travelled widely throughout Europe and worked at the court of King Christian IV of Denmark. Dowland excelled at writing in the fashionable Elizabethan 'Melancholy' mode and today's performers have chosen works that Dowland wrote in Denmark in this mood.

Including: The King of Denmark, his galliard; Flow my teares; Semper Dowland Semper Dolens; Mellancoly Galliard; Go cristall teares; Lachrimae

Thomas Dunford (lute)
Lea Desandre (mezzo soprano)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001tjq

[ardcarp]

Looking forward to hearing this shortly!

Can anyone explain what the Musiq3 [sic] Festival is all about? And why the photo of a Steinway Model D on the web page?

[doversoul1]

Looking forward to hearing this shortly!

Can anyone explain what the Musiq3 [sic] Festival is all about? And why the photo of a Steinway Model D on the web page?

Is this it?

https://www.flagey.be/en/group/4790-festival-musiq-3-2018

The piano: I think this is the ‘photo for all concerts’ when there is no related photo of the concert.

[ardcarp]

The piano: I think this is the ‘photo for all concerts’ when there is no related photo of the concert.

Yes. Silly me. Still confused about Musiq3, but never mind.

I really enjoyed the programme though. I just love those Dowland lute songs (the first things with which my singing teacher coaxed a nascent tenor voice).
They were sung [and 'accompanied' if that's the right word] very beautifully by Lea Desandre, whom I'm ashamed to say I haven't heard of before.

[doversoul1]

Yes. Silly me. Still confused an bout Musiq3, but never mind.

I really enjoyed the programme though. I just love those Dowland lute songs (the first things with which my singing teacher coaxed a nascent tenor voice}.
They were sung [and 'accompanied' if that's the right word] very beautifully by Lea Desandre, whom I'm ashamed to say I haven't heard of before.

Yes, it was a lovely recital and no I’d not come across Lea Desandre either.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/search?search_query=Lea+Desandre

Dowland song recitals are not always successful in concert halls but this was excellent.

[Padraig]

Yes, it was a lovely recital and no I’d not come across Lea Desandre either.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/search?search_query=Lea+Desandre

Dowland song recitals are not always successful in concert halls but this was excellent.

Very good programme, ds. And so well presented - Semper Sarah, semper super.

[Richard Tarleton]

I greatly enjoyed this recital. Lea Desandre's quite fruity for this repertoire, but very beautiful - I've gone right off counter-tenors (inc. Dunford's regular partner) and found this a pleasant change. Thomas Dunford's lute playing has an improvisatory quality which I enjoy in live performance. I loved the last item, running the Frog Galliard into its companion Now O Now.

[ardcarp]

There has been a sort of evolution in the playing of harpsichord and lute music, where a little licence in rhythm has become OK. (Some overdo it to the point where it might be called rubato.....Richard Egarr, maybe?) I quite like this freedom in the 17th century repertoire. Earlier players such as Desmond Dupre and Bob Spencer (whom I knew well) used it more sparingly.

[Richard Tarleton]

There has been a sort of evolution in the playing of harpsichord and lute music, where a little licence in rhythm has become OK. (Some overdo it to the point where it might be called rubato.....Richard Egarr, maybe?) I quite like this freedom in the 17th century repertoire. Earlier players such as Desmond Dupre and Bob Spencer (whom I knew well) used it more sparingly.

Indeed - tho I'm thinking of current interpreters like Nigel North, Jakob Lindberg and Paul O'Dette, who collectively are in a different league, and who are....less free with the rubato.

[MickyD]

For those of you who may have missed my post on another thread, here is Mr Dunford making magic with Jean Rondeau. A spellbinding recital...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astgqWYf9u8&index=2&list=FLBc5HbFSu_TDvzxC8-xga4Q&t=1992s

[doversoul1]

For those of you who may have missed my post on another thread, here is Mr Dunford making magic with Jean Rondeau. A spellbinding recital...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astg...-xga4Q&t=1992s

...and this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6VZ2mk5K5M

Solo lute recital by Thomas Dunford in Wigmore Hall on 20th April 2017