Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland

小提琴家John Holloway在这张杰出的作品中围绕约翰·道兰德（John Dowland）的《泪水帕凡舞曲》（Lachrimae Pavans）编排了一组作品。道兰德的这部作品被誉为英国室内乐的经典之作，基于他著名的歌曲《流泪吧，我的眼泪》（Flow My Teares），呈现出对主题对位法和和声可能性的深刻探索。Holloway选择了五人弦乐团（四把中提琴和一把低音提琴）的编制来演绎道兰德的帕凡舞曲，突出乐曲的哀愁与悲怆的基调。 在这张专辑中，Holloway和其他音乐家还穿插演奏了同一时期的其他著名作曲家作品，如Henry Purcell、William Lawes、John Jenkins、Thomas Morley和Matthew Locke，通过鲜明对比的色彩与个性展现出17世纪英国重奏音乐的繁荣。 John Holloway是古乐界经验丰富的首席指挥之一，他曾为William Christie、Christopher Hogwood、Ton Koopman等多位指挥家领奏，并长期担任伦敦古典乐团和Taverner乐团的首席。他自1997年起为ECM新古典系列录制了多部备受赞誉的专辑，包括巴赫的无伴奏小提琴奏鸣曲与组曲，以及Biber、Schmelzer、Muffat等作曲家的作品。 John Holloway - violin, viola Monika Baer - violin, viola Renate Steinmann - violin Susanna Hefti - viola Martin Zeller - bass violin In this remarkable recording, baroque violinist John Holloway creates a programme around the Lachrimae Pavans by John Dowland. Threaded between Dowland's masterpieces are works of other major composers of his era - Henry Purcell, William Lawes, John Jenkins, Thomas Morley and Matthew Locke. In bringing together these pieces of strongly contrasting colour and character Holloway and his musicians give a vivid sense of the great flowering of consort music which took place in England in the 17th century. John Dowland's Lachrimae Pavans is considered one of the greatest works in the canon of English chamber music. Based upon his famous song "Flow My Teares", the seven pavans - Seaven Teares, as Dowland called them - present an extraordinary exploration of the contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities offered by the theme. Believing the composer offered possibility of performance by five string players without lute, Holloway and company play Dowland's pavans with the instrumentation of four violas and bass violin. As Holloway puts it: "As has been said of Dowland, his greatest works are inspired by a deeply felt tragic concept of life, and a preoccupation with tears, sin, darkness and death. With that in mind, this choice of instruments (rather than transposing the music into a higher key) made itself." One of the most experienced concertmasters in the 'Early Music' world, John Holloway has led orchestras for such diverse directors as William Christie, Christopher Hogwood, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Nicholas McGegan, and was for many years leader of Roger Norrington's London Classical Players and Andrew Parrott's Taverner Players. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Violin (modern and baroque) and Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. Since 1997 he has made a number of acclaimed recordings for ECM New Series, including Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin solo, Biber, Schmelzer, Muffat, Leclair, Castello and others.