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Smile UK Store - Crystal Tears - John Dowland and his contemporaries (Andreas Scholl/Concerto di Viole)
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List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £9.98
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0794881868520
Format: CD+DVD
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Harmonia Mundi
Release Date: 2008-05-26
Running Time: 79
Studio: Harmonia Mundi
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Editorial Reviews:
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"I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy," explained Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, published in 1621. The music of John Dowland invited and indulged the then fashionable state of melancholy, and Andreas Scholl here explores that most rewarding area of repertoire. His plaintively light counter-tenor voice hauntingly negotiates the swells and swoons in the eloquent company of lute and viols. Scholl includes pieces by John Ward, Robert Johnson, William Byrd, John Bennet, Patrick Mando, Alfonso Ferrabosco II and Richard Mico, and the disc includes instrumental numbers as well as songs. Listen out for the whistling on track 11. The bonus DVD offers a 20-minute documentary on the recording sessions. --MICHAEL DERVAN, The Irish Times, 13 June 2008
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pure delight
Comment: Delightful, exquisite. Some echo, but otherwise lovely sound. It took me a while to accept the countertenor sound as anything other than a good party trick. But I now love the sound as much as the output from any decent tenor, baritone, saoprano or mezzo.
There's been some criticism that Scholl might be overstylised for this material - but that is just Scholl's wonderful technique. If you want a more informal style, then try Sting's take on Dowland. Personally - I like both.
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