John Dowland: Lachrimae for Viol Consort | Phantasm · MarchVivo

Melancholy was such a widespread ailment in the Renaissance that it prompted extensive medical treatises that delved into its causes. In music, the best example of the importance of this emotional imbalance was the instrumental collection Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares, composed by the English lutenist John Dowland in 1604.

John Dowland (ca. 1563-1626)
Lachrimæ "Seaven Teares"
00:00 Mrs. Nichols Almand
01:07 Lachrimæ Antiquæ
04:34 Lachrimæ Antiquæ Novæ
07:36 M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard
09:21 Sir John Souch his Galiard

10:42 Lachrimæ Gementes
14:08 Lachrimæ Tristes
17:42 M. Giles Hoby his Galiard
19:01 The King of Denmarks Galiard

20:47 Lachrimæ Coactae
23:48 Lachrimæ Amantis
27:27 M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with two trebles
28:42 M. Bucton his Galiard
30:00 The Earle of Essex Galiard

31:11 Lachrimæ Verae
35:04 Semper Dowland semper Dolens
40:33 Captain Piper his Galiard
41:50 M. Henry Noell his Galiard

43:34 Sir Henry Umptons Funerall
47:28 M. George Whitehead his Almand
49:10 M. John Langtons Pavan

Phantasm (Laurence Dreyfus, viola da gamba soprano and direction. Emilia Benjamin, viola da gamba soprano. Heidi Gröger, viola da gamba tenor. Margin Jantzen and Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, bass viola da gamba) with Elizabeth Kenny, lute.

Concert "Lachrimae" from the cycle "Nostalgias".

9 March 2024
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

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[Catherine-myuc]

Just came across this performance at 3:49 am in a local ER. As a former gamba consort player, I know this music intimately though very rarely with the lute. Phantasm is an absolutely virtuoso group with a interpretation compelling. What a gift to come across this gem at the end of a difficult year. A thousand gratitudes!

[normhardy]

Very lovely clear listening with decent headphones. Thanks.

[PhilBaum-qjgi]

Same age as Shakespeare and the two gained fame contemporaneously. This is Dowland at his best.

[WilliamFord]

I love viol consorts and I love John Dowland’s music!

[bandicoot]

Glad these artists and instruments are becoming more prominent, grateful appreciation!

[joaoguilhermef.m]

Nice to see a collegue from Jaap ter Linden's baroquecello class in The Hague Netherlands Markku Mikola

[janetwyning]

I think this is "flow my tears" - a great favourite of mine..

[dbadagna]

Phantasm was based at the University of Oxford from 2005 when they were appointed Consort-in-Residence. In Autumn 2010, they began a new association as Consort-in-Residence at Magdalen College, where they performed, recorded, and collaborated with the acclaimed College Choir. Phantasm have also making regular appearances for several seasons at the Wigmore Hall, appearing a total of three times during the 2017/2018 season. In 2015, Phantasm moved its base of operations to Berlin, Germany, where director Laurence Dreyfus plans the consort's activities and pursues his own independent research in musicology, performance studies, and music analysis.

[AlasPoorEngland]

Brilliant and thank you! Love the way the lutenist has decorated cadences ornaments and little fill-ins, and the amazing part adds impetus to all pieces … you cd. compile a little history of Jacobethan England from the dedicatees

[kelvinsmallwood]

Great performance & wonderful music. I notice in a lot of videos that the Lute has become so prominent as it isn't always played except in small groups 7 depending on the period of the music..

[staffanolofsson]

As always from MarchVivo interesting music! This Viol Ensemble is super.

[DanielMessiasSantos-gybk]

Your work is excepitional, I realized it demands a lot of time, isn' it?... Beautiful!

[sdorr]

Thank goodness that such beautiful remnants of Western art-music survive! These musicians are blessed!
But please don't DSM5-characterize it as an "emotional imbalance! The equation is more complicated, and there is also sweetness and light and more!
It's part of what makes us human.

[marekstefan]

Very nice and soothing medical imbalance:)

[bunsyouota]

What did Dowland feel always so sad? But his music brings us joy, peaceful and calm joy.