Dowland A Game of Mirrors David Chevallier

• 1 The Willow Song (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 05:16
• 2 Book of Songs, Book 2: Clear or cloudy sweet as April showering (arr. D. Chevallier for voice and 2 theorbos) 02:41
• 3 Book of Songs, Book 2: Flow my tears (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 05:59
• 4 Book of Songs, Book 1: Can she excuse my wrongs (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 06:01
• 5 Book of Songs, Book 1: Come again, sweet love doth now invite (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 06:23
• 6 Book of Songs, Book 2: I saw my lady weep (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 08:30
• 7 Book of Songs, Book 1: Come away, come sweet love (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 04:02
• 8 Book of Songs, Book 1: All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 07:13
• 9 Book of Songs, Book 3: The lowest trees have tops (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 03:35
• 10 Book of Songs, Book 4, 'A Pilgrimes Solace': In Darkness Let Me Dwell (arr. D. Chevallier for voice, guitar and theorbo) 04:13
• Total Runtime 53:53

Info for Dowland A Game of Mirrors

“Dowland – A Game of Mirrors” is a sophisticated acoustic album merging modern jazz and English renaissance music. The French jazz guitarist and composer David Chevallier conceived this project based on the original melodies by John Dowland, and then created his own instrumental arrangements for guitar and theorbo, which give the well-known songs a completely new look & feel both musically and sonically. This is a one-of-a-kind Dowland experience, inspiring and illuminative for jazz fans and early music lovers alike.

Anne Magouët, soprano
David Chevallier, guitar, theorbo
Bruno Helstroffer, theorbo

David Chevallier
Refusing to be confined within a musical style, he cultivates his difference, and creates works at the intersection of universes that are a priori remote from one another. Perhaps this is due to his personal trajectory - musician parents, a thorough training in the classical guitar, empirical discovery of jazz, improvisation and composition - or perhaps it is no more than a form of resistance. Whether as an instrumentalist in the groups of Laurent Dehors, Patrice Caratini, John Taylor and Jean-Marie Machado, or as leader of his own projects, David Chevallier has always shown a determination to be original.

Hence, after setting to music novellas by Dino Buzzati and poems by Cesare Pavese (in his astonishing album ‘The Rest is Silence' written specially for Élise Caron), David Chevallier recalled the madrigals of Gesualdo, which had made a strong impression on him, and conceived this programme of ‘Gesualdo Variations'. He subsequently worked on the lute songs of John Dowland with the soprano Anne Magouët, also a member of the ‘Gesualdo Variations' team, and the theorbist Bruno Helstroffer.

Then came ‘Is That Pop Music', with the remarkable singer David Linx and four faithful companions: Yves Robert, Christophe Monniot, Michel Massot, and Denis Charolles.

Eclecticism and coherence, a taste for risk-taking, and sensuous pleasure: these are the key words that characterize this resolutely atypical musician.

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