MUSIC CIRCA 1600 A Melancholy Flower
I festivalens sidste koncert fordyber vi os i 1600-tallets engelske renæssancemusik og klagesang; Lachrimae. Med udgangspunkt i Dowlands tåresange, oprindeligt skrevet som instrumentalværk, har Paul Hillier tilføjet tekster fra både 16- og 1900-tallets store poeter som bl.a. T.S. Eliot og Robert Burton. Selvom meget af musikken oprindeligt har været uden ord, så fortæller melodierne og musikken i sig selv historier, både gennem William Byrd’s ordløse Fantasia, og i motetterne af Robert White og Byrd.
Men melankolien får ikke det sidste ord, for som Dowland selv skulle have sagt, så kan musikkens tårer være behagelige. Ikke alle tårer bliver til i sorgen – men nogle gange også i glæden. Således sluttes programmet med Anthony Holbornes muntre The Fairie-Round.
Program
William Byrd - Fantasia, II à 6
William Cornysh - Ah Robin
John Dowland - Lachrimae Antiquae — Flow my tears
William Byrd - Laudibus in sanctis
John Dowland - Lachrimae Antiquae Novae —Time and the bell (T. S. Eliot)
Robert White - Christe qui lux es et dies
John Dowland - Lachrimae Tristes — Ev'n such is time (Sir Walter Raleigh)
William Byrd - Ne irascaris / Civitas sancti
John Dowland - Lachrimae Coactae — Many men are melancholy (Robert Burton)
William Byrd - Tho Amarillis Dance in Green
John Dowland - Lachrimae Verae — The dove descending (T. S. Eliot)
Anthony Holborne - The Honie Suckle (Almaine)
- The Fairie-Round (Coranto)
16.06.2024
Hørby Kirke
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MUSIC CIRCA 1600 A Melancholy Flower
The festival's final concert takes us to the world of English Renaissance music of the 17th century and the famous lamentations Lachrimae. Drawing on Dowland's songs of tears, originally written as instrumental pieces, Paul Hillier has added lyrics from great poets of both the 16th and 20th centuries, including T.S. Eliot and Robert Burton. Although much of the music was originally without words, the melodies and music themselves tell stories, through William Byrd's wordless Fantasia and in the motets of Robert White and Byrd.
We need not dwell in melancholy, for as Dowland himself is said to have remarked, the tears of music can be pleasant - and not all tears arise from sorrow, but sometimes from joy as well. Thus, the programme concludes with Anthony Holborne's cheerful The Fairie-Round.
Program
William Byrd - Fantasia, II à 6
William Cornysh - Ah Robin
John Dowland - Lachrimae Antiquae — Flow my tears
William Byrd - Laudibus in sanctis
John Dowland - Lachrimae Antiquae Novae —Time and the bell (T. S. Eliot)
Robert White - Christe qui lux es et dies
John Dowland - Lachrimae Tristes — Ev'n such is time (Sir Walter Raleigh)
William Byrd - Ne irascaris / Civitas sancti
John Dowland - Lachrimae Coactae — Many men are melancholy (Robert Burton)
William Byrd - Tho Amarillis Dance in Green
John Dowland - Lachrimae Verae — The dove descending (T. S. Eliot)
Anthony Holborne - The Honie Suckle (Almaine)
- The Fairie-Round (Coranto)