Beautiful playing. I wouldn't have known this was a modern reconstruction. But I don't know the music well and I haven't listened to Dowland in a long time and I don't try and play the music. But I'm very, very surprised (and intrigued and amused) that it needs reconstruction, DIY or otherwise. Two questions: a) where does this idea leave all the great performances of Dowland and those CD compilations of the complete works? Lindberg, North. O'Dette, Chris Wilson etc. They simply didn't notice any fundamental issues with the music? b) is Dowland's music uniquely flawed? (needs extra parts, needs cliched florid bits excised, need voice-leading corrected etc). Dowland is often posed as the pinnacle of Renaissance lute music. If the sources of his music is fundamentally compromised, where does that leave all the other lute music of the Renaissance? Does it all need a bit of modern polishing into shape too? (and how is a modern person somehow seeing through the sources to what Dowland would have wanted beyond the abundant evidence of what people at the time physically recorded in the tablatures?) Stuart
On 15 November 2012 22:07, David van Ooijen <[1][email protected]> wrote: On 15 November 2012 22:12, WALSH STUART <[2][email protected]> wrote: > Well, isn't anyone other than Dan going to reply to this? I was > expecting a huge response! My (two but) latest CD is a response: two 'new' Dowland solos `a la dt, albeit reconstructed and played by DvO. ;-) In other words: dt is right, DIY-Dowland is the way to go! David I even uploaded both arrangements to YouTube: [3]http://youtu.be/1tSrVURBLfs [4]http://youtu.be/UcfQSeYUK_M -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [5][email protected] [6]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://youtu.be/1tSrVURBLfs 4. http://youtu.be/UcfQSeYUK_M 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
