Dowland: Lachrimæ Zachary Wilder, La Chimera, Eduardo Egüez

• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 1 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall 04:22
• First Book of Songs or Aires:
• 2 Dowland: First Book of Songs or Aires: Now, O Now I Needs Must Part 04:04
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 3 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: The King of Denmark His Galiard 01:16
• 4 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Antiquæ 04:06
• Second Book of Songs or Aires:
• 5 Dowland: Second Book of Songs or Aires: O Sweet Woods, the Delight of Solitariness 04:25
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 6 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: M. Bucton His Galiard 02:07
• 7 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Antiquæ Novæ 04:21
• First Book of Songs or Aires:
• 8 Dowland: First Book of Songs or Aires: Dear, If You Change, I'll Never Choose Again 03:47
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 9 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Gementes 04:14
• 10 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: M. Henry Noell His Galiard 02:02
• First Book of Songs or Aires:
• 11 Dowland: First Book of Songs or Aires: If My Complaints Could Passions Move 02:41
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 12 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Tristes 04:44
• 13 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: M. Giles Hoby His Galiard 01:32
• 14 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Coactæ 04:09
• First Book of Songs or Aires:
• 15 Dowland: First Book of Songs or Aires: His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turn'd 03:03
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 16 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: M. George Whitehead His Almand 01:41
• 17 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Amantis 04:15
• First Book of Songs or Aires:
• 18 Dowland: First Book of Songs or Aires: Go Crystal Tears 03:32
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 19 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Sir John Souch His Galiard 02:09
• 20 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Lachrimæ Veræ 04:47
• Second Book of Songs or Aires:
• 21 Dowland: Second Book of Songs or Aires: Flow My Tears Fall From Your Springs 04:37
• Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears:
• 22 Dowland: Lachrimæ, or Seven Tears: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens 04:55
• Total Runtime 01:16:49

Info for Dowland: Lachrimæ

“No one is indifferent to Dowland’s Lachrimae. Hypnotic, sharp, pitiless, redeeming: with the pleasure of an almost taxonomic cataloguing Dowland leads us into the gallery of the different natures of weeping, where instead of paintings we find mirrors, exact portraits of our own individual and unique feeling.

Many theories have been ventured on this enigmatic collection, one of the most interesting being that it is a crypto-liturgy of Catholic Maundy Thursday to win the favor of Queen Anne; or that it is a reflection of the theories of melancholy very much in vogue at the time.

Whatever the motive behind this collection, every listener will find in it the possibility of a dense introspective journey, guided – but subtly, without impositions – by extremely evocative titles, to which one can give an autobiographical meaning: ancient tears, forced tears, lover’s tears…

Within the constant oscillation between the profane and the sacred, between nihilism and redemption, sometimes dazzling landscapes of light appear, like landscapes barely revealed by a flash in the middle of a thunderstorm, Hindemith would say: moments of sublime joy, of euphoria almost, where tears – as foretold in the preface – will rise from happiness.

For our reading we were inspired by the epigram on the cover page “Aut Furit, aut Lachrimat, quem non Fortuna beavit” (“O si infuria o pianto, chi non è benedetto dalla Sorte”): we have conceived a retrospective story punctuated by dances and songs, the story of a man at his deathbed and the accounts he makes with his own Destiny”.

Zachary Wilder, tenor
La Chimera
Eduardo Egüez, lute, direction

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