Composer: David Gorton
Performer: Stefan Ostersjo, Longbow
Conductor: Peter Sheppard Skærved
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0396
Release: 2017
Size: 989 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Book of Songs, Book 2:
01. Flow, my tears, fall from your springs (arr. D. Gorton for string ensemble)
Lachrymae Variations0
02. Introduction
03. Theme
04. Variation 1
05. Variation 2
06. Refrain
07. Variation 3
08. Variation 4
09. Refrain
10. Variation 5
Pavana & Galiarda (Arr. D. Gorton)
11. Pavana
12. Galiarda
13. Forlorn Hope Fancy (arr. S. Ostersjo for 11-string guitar)
Forlorn Hope
14. I. Contrapuntal Fantasia
15. II. Dr. Cable’s Pavan
16. III. Fantasia on 1 to 4
17. IV. Mr. Hunt’s Thing, Almain
18. V. Fantasia on 10 and 11
19. VI. The Right Honourable David, Minister of State for Universities and Science (attending Cabinet), his Galliard
20. VII. Harmonic Fantasia
21. Pavana Lachrymae (arr. D. Gorton for string ensemble)
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.