Wasn't it Andreas Scholl telling Dowland's music "Folk"? Andreas Scholl has a great voice but felt into the traps of those thinking music would start with Bach ...
Speaking about playing with modern orchestras: If you should ever be asked to do so: Leave it! I am playing these eve with a modern orchestra and would say: It doesn't make any sense. What has an archlute to do in an ensemble of 8 modern violins, viols, 3 Cellos, a double Bass, 2 oboe, bassoon and a choir? If it wouldn't be a favour for a friend and the premier performance of 2 Telemann-Cantatas .... Speaking about Karamazov and Dowland. When listening to the music you can hear on Amazon: It is a catastrophe and not advertising the lute, the beauty of the sound of a lute and the CD doesn't show a glimpse of the beauty of Dowland's music in general. It doesn't need a refined taste to detect that this recording is more than fluid - it's superfluous (okay - the pun works better in german). I really would like to listen to a pop-singer singing and playing Dowland - everything supporting the instrument is welcome, but this one is not helpful - rather the contrary! Best wishes Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:04 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Hear Sting Dowland CD at amazon.de > In einer eMail vom 24.09.2006 14:41:18 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit > schreibt > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I have never heard of him apart from his work with Andreas Scholl which > didn't impress me at all. I found the Scholl Musical Banquet CD to be a > total > catastrophe, the sort of thing thrown together by record company bosses > with an eye > for the main chance. Bach/Britten on archlute doesn't interest me at > all,quite pointless.I am interested in authentic early music and rock > music, he isn't > authentic enough for my taste and he doesn't rock either :). > > So I will let people with an IRREPROACHABLE taste like you to enjoy his > talents. > > I also don't see what him coming from Sarajevo has to do with his musical > qualities. But now I see from your emphasis that it is probably good for > the > marketing department of DG. > > To return to my question in an original posting, why does he use an > archlute? > Please note I am not interested if Mr. Stubbs uses an archlute as I > believe > you already posted. > > Also playing Kohaut with the modern orchestra Orchestra della Svizzera > Italiana is not exactly an impressive gig. It seems he has cornered all > the jobs > that "authentic" lutenists would probably turn down. Bravo !!! > > I saw that Andre Rieu had a lutenist on one of his CD's maybe you can give > Mr > Karamazov a tip, could be great for his CV. > > Mark > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
