Ensemble Thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe, Sting
AP330 - 1CD - 64' - Nov 22, 2024
Cultivating as always a fertile anachronism, Thélème brings together in ‘all we get is life’ the complete works for two voices and lute by Dowland and several compositions by Cage. And world-renowned artist Sting offers a reworking of his hit song, ‘Shape of My Heart’, coming full circle on an album where Renaissance and present meet, mingle and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.
Cage and Dowland: the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for sober expression, concise forms and intimate realisation – and for the pleasure that comes from words as such. Each cultivates this desire in his own way: Cage undertakes, like a tightrope walker, to approach the essence of musical thought with humour, lightness and depth; Dowland aims for the expression of feelings in their purest form.
Cultivating as always a fertile anachronism, Thélème brings together in ‘all we get is life’ the complete works for two voices and lute by Dowland and several compositions by Cage. And world-renowned artist Sting offers a reworking of his hit song, ‘Shape of My Heart’, which in this new arrangement becomes a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle on an album where Renaissance and present meet, mingle and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.
JOHN CAGE Song Books
1. Solo for Voice 49 - The Year Begins to Be Ripe
JOHN DOWLAND The Second Booke of Songs
2. Dye not before thy day
3. Mourne, mourne, day is with darkness fled
4. Sorow, sorow Stay, lend true repentant teares
JOHN CAGE
5. Five
6. Song Books: Solo for Voice 91
7. JOHN DOWLAND Lady if you So Spight mee
JOHN CAGE
8. Eight Whiskus
9. Dream
JOHN DOWLAND
10. I Saw my Lady weepe
11. Flow my teares, fall from your Springs
12. A Dream
JOHN CAGE
13. She Is Asleep
14. A Room
JOHN DOWLAND The Second Booke of Songs
15. Tymes eldest Sonne, old age the heire of ease: First part
16. Then Sit thee downe, & Say thy Nunc demittis: Second part
17. When others Sings Venite exultemus: Third part
18. STING Shape of My Heart
