David Gorton: Variations On Dowland
Stefan Ostersjo (guitar)
Longbow, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Well recorded and presented with the Toccata label's usual good standards, this is an intriguing programme that is worthy of investigation - certainly for the Lachrymae Variations. Peter Sheppard...
David Gorton: Variations On Dowland
Stefan Ostersjo (guitar)
Longbow, Peter Sheppard Skærved
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Well recorded and presented with the Toccata label's usual good standards, this is an intriguing programme that is worthy of investigation - certainly for the Lachrymae Variations. Peter Sheppard...
About
This album links the contemporary world with the Tudor England of 400 years ago.
The English composer David Gorton (b. 1978) has gone back to the music of John Dowland and rethought it in contemporary terms.
He has written an extended set of variations for string ensemble on Dowland’s massive hit Lachrymae and another on Dowland’s Forlorn Hope for 11-string guitar, where the titles of some of the variations poke fun at British politicians.
Composers all over Europe made their own versions of Lachrymae, and this album proves that Dowland’s fascination endures.
Contents and tracklist
- Stefan Östersjö
- Stefan Östersjö
VI. The Right Honourable David, Minister of State for Universities & Science (Attending Cabinet), His Galliard
Track length4:49
Awards and reviews
May 2017
Well recorded and presented with the Toccata label's usual good standards, this is an intriguing programme that is worthy of investigation - certainly for the Lachrymae Variations. Peter Sheppard Skærved's Longbow is a very fine band, both in this marvellous swirl of modernity and the more or less straight arrangements.
