Captured the essence of this Dowland classic in an engaging arrangement. Feels like I’m alive back when Dowland composed it. Really very well done. I appreciate all your hard work to accomplish this achievement. Thank you.
John Dowland was Irish. Dowland is an Irish name, an anglicized version of Dolan/Dowling/Dowel/Doolin He came from the small Co. Dublin port of Dalkey, then the principle port of Dublin City. He was over and back to London. Had relatives both there and In Ireland. Somehow he met with Shakespeare, became friends, and the rest is history. Some of his lyrics, along with Shakespears writings come from the Gaelic. Shakespeare alluded to 11 Irish songs. Fortune my foe, long held to be an Irish tune, and another example..Old Irish harp melody called "Cailín ó cois Stúir mé" - Caleno custurame
"The dedication of the song 'From Silent Night' in A Pilgrimes Solace (1612), 'To my loving Country-man Mr. John Forster the younger, Merchant of Dublin in Ireland', has been taken to mean that he was Irish (W. H. Grattan Flood, GM, 301, 1906, 287-91); but in Lamentatio Henrici Noel (1597) Dowland signs himself as 'infœlice Inglese', and elsewhere he describes himself as an Englishman."
Far as I know, there's no proof of him being born in London, or originating in Devon. Nobody seems to know for sure, so Dowland being English, is just as plausible as him being Irish. And to rebuke your point of Irish people claiming God etc.. its ironic, as some English often have the same habit of claiming anyone from our two islands as their own; (eg.Duke of Wellington, and half of the heroes of the Crimean and Zulu wars) not to mention more recent sporting victories where 'British' covers it when it suits, and then we're back to being Irish, Scots, and Welsh when it doesn't suit. And despite what the national museum says, I don't wish to go back to the stone-age, to figure out the original population of Ireland. Gaelic folklore/mythology (Lebor Gabala) says we came from Spain, originating in Scythia. DNA backs this up since we are incredibly close to the Basques! Then later Irish colonised Scotland (Dal Riada) Raided the whole West coast of Britain, after the collapse of Rome. Taking St Patrick, Had Welsh settlements. (leaving ogam stones) We can play semantics all day..I just think 1) his surname. 2) his 'fellow countryman' Dublin merchant 3)There was a John Dowland, merchant, living in Dalkey, Dublin's main port then 4) a tradition that Shakespeare composed Hamlet while visiting his friend John Dowland at Dalkey near Dublin, and that the account of the shore of Elsinore is actually based on Coliemore Harbour in Dalkey. 5) Shakespeare was more familiar with Ireland than he 'should have been' and alluded to at least 11 Irish songs. Fortune my foe, long held to be an Irish tune, and another example..Old Irish harp melody called "Cailín ó cois Stúir mé" - Caleno custurame
@MrsMojo I didn't invent any of this 'Blarney' - (would be nice to have less of the 'Stage Oirish' stuff from Punch magazine thanks! ) Museums change their narrative all the time. Eg what you would get as a description in Victorian times, is vastly different to today. That museum in Dublin you visited is Victorian. 'My version' is the Lebor Gabala. The Gaelic version. And you would only use the term 'fellow counrtyman' if you were away from home. I would hardly call someone my fellow countryman, if I was still at home in Dublin. Shakespeare alluded to 11 Irish songs. Not inspire them. His plays wern't being performed in Dublin then. Fortune my foe, just one of them, long held to be an Irish tune. I think your guess as to where John Dowland was born, or from, is as good as my Punch magazine Blarney!
Las obras de Dowland poseen una modernidad sorprendente. Y el oficio y la calidad de estos intérpretes consiguen facinarnos con las obras y sus ejecuciones.
Compare........if you will........the experience of hearing this music........to the feeling of the eternal blackest, most silent darkness without life. This illustrates how this music adds color and warmth. Hearing it makes life worth living if for no other reason than simply being able to hear it. Searching throughout the endless silent black void, for an infinity of time, then one day way off in the distance, very faint at first, but getting a bit clearer and louder the closer I get to it, all of this wonderful colorful warmth pours again into my heart! Thank you! ❤
How often did the peasants of the time get to hear this.....not in their everyday lives. It would have been a special occasion.....a street performance or maybe before a play. We take for granted our access to the best music ever created in every genre imaginable right at our fingertips.....
A Ukrainian early-music group named (I think--don't speak the language) Львівський Музичний Цех. From their web page: "Lviv Music Center is a free association of musicians studying and performing European music of the XIII-XVII centuries." They list the artists at earlymusic.lviv.ua/artists .
Lovely to hear Ukrainian musicians perform English music to such a high standard
Esperemos que estén bien todos.
Very beautiful rendition. Thank you.
Priceless!
The greatest English composer performed by a superb ensemble. Well done!
Well that's debatable
Yep, no one beats Purcell
💖🌺 Sublime 🌺💖 Many, MANY thanks and best wishes ❤️ 👌 🙏
Love the switch to the instrumental outro at 2:29 and the Ginger Baker style drum solo that precedes it. RENAISSANCE ROCK 'N ROLL 🎻🪕🥁
Absolutely wonderful 😊
One of my favourite John Dowland pieces ... beautifully sung and played ... wonderful!
Wow, just wow. So well done.
Beautifully done...bravo!
Captured the essence of this Dowland classic in an engaging arrangement. Feels like I’m alive back when Dowland composed it. Really very well done. I appreciate all your hard work to accomplish this achievement.
Thank you.
👌🌺🙏
John Dowland was Irish. Dowland is an Irish name, an anglicized version of Dolan/Dowling/Dowel/Doolin He came from the small Co. Dublin port of Dalkey, then the principle port of Dublin City. He was over and back to London. Had relatives both there and In Ireland. Somehow he met with Shakespeare, became friends, and the rest is history. Some of his lyrics, along with Shakespears writings come from the Gaelic. Shakespeare alluded to 11 Irish songs. Fortune my foe, long held to be an Irish tune, and another example..Old Irish harp melody called "Cailín ó cois Stúir mé" - Caleno custurame
Merci, pour ces précisions utiles, et de rendre à César ce qui est à César.
Quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari.
"The dedication of the song 'From Silent Night' in A Pilgrimes Solace (1612), 'To my loving Country-man Mr. John Forster the younger, Merchant of Dublin in Ireland', has been taken to mean that he was Irish (W. H. Grattan Flood, GM, 301, 1906, 287-91); but in Lamentatio Henrici Noel (1597) Dowland signs himself as 'infœlice Inglese', and elsewhere he describes himself as an Englishman."
Far as I know, there's no proof of him being born in London, or originating in Devon. Nobody seems to know for sure, so Dowland being English, is just as plausible as him being Irish. And to rebuke your point of Irish people claiming God etc.. its ironic, as some English often have the same habit of claiming anyone from our two islands as their own; (eg.Duke of Wellington, and half of the heroes of the Crimean and Zulu wars) not to mention more recent sporting victories where 'British' covers it when it suits, and then we're back to being Irish, Scots, and Welsh when it doesn't suit. And despite what the national museum says, I don't wish to go back to the stone-age, to figure out the original population of Ireland. Gaelic folklore/mythology (Lebor Gabala) says we came from Spain, originating in Scythia. DNA backs this up since we are incredibly close to the Basques! Then later Irish colonised Scotland (Dal Riada) Raided the whole West coast of Britain, after the collapse of Rome. Taking St Patrick, Had Welsh settlements. (leaving ogam stones) We can play semantics all day..I just think 1) his surname. 2) his 'fellow countryman' Dublin merchant 3)There was a John Dowland, merchant, living in Dalkey, Dublin's main port then 4) a tradition that Shakespeare composed Hamlet while visiting his friend John Dowland at Dalkey near Dublin, and that the account of the shore of Elsinore is actually based on Coliemore Harbour in Dalkey. 5) Shakespeare was more familiar with Ireland than he 'should have been' and alluded to at least 11 Irish songs. Fortune my foe, long held to be an Irish tune, and another example..Old Irish harp melody called "Cailín ó cois Stúir mé" - Caleno custurame
@MrsMojo I didn't invent any of this 'Blarney' - (would be nice to have less of the 'Stage Oirish' stuff from Punch magazine thanks! ) Museums change their narrative all the time. Eg what you would get as a description in Victorian times, is vastly different to today. That museum in Dublin you visited is Victorian. 'My version' is the Lebor Gabala. The Gaelic version. And you would only use the term 'fellow counrtyman' if you were away from home. I would hardly call someone my fellow countryman, if I was still at home in Dublin. Shakespeare alluded to 11 Irish songs. Not inspire them. His plays wern't being performed in Dublin then. Fortune my foe, just one of them, long held to be an Irish tune. I think your guess as to where John Dowland was born, or from, is as good as my Punch magazine Blarney!
@mrsmojo6920I was going to say that Dowland is a village in Devon - I've cycled through it quite a bit.
Brilliant. Greetings from Scotland!
Las obras de Dowland poseen una modernidad sorprendente. Y el oficio y la calidad de estos intérpretes consiguen facinarnos con las obras y sus ejecuciones.
Excellent performance! Wow!!!
Compare........if you will........the experience of hearing this music........to the feeling of the eternal blackest, most silent darkness without life. This illustrates how this music adds
color and warmth. Hearing it makes life worth living if for no other reason than simply being able to hear it. Searching throughout the endless silent black void, for an infinity of time, then one day way off in the distance, very faint at first, but getting a bit clearer and louder the closer I get to it, all of this wonderful colorful warmth pours again into my heart! Thank you! ❤
How often did the peasants of the time get to hear this.....not in their everyday lives.
It would have been a special occasion.....a street performance or maybe before a play.
We take for granted our access to the best music ever created in every genre imaginable right at our fingertips.....
Wow that's beautiful 😊
Це дійсно красиво.
Beautiful..
What a cool group
Thank you for performing and recording these gems!
This is easily the best rendition of this piece. Is there a CD or download? I love this consort!!!
Amazing!
This was a big hit in Shakespeare's day.
You were there, then ?
No1 Aye
Fantastico, complimenti
Дауленд и Персел - это такая мощь!
А заслоняют как их классики 19-20 столетий! Мне вот только в этом году повезло.
You sir, have very good taste
Православненько
Молодці. Слава Україні!🇺🇦❤️🎵
Героям слава!! 💙💛
Slava Ukraine. X
Who are the performers?
A Ukrainian early-music group named (I think--don't speak the language) Львівський Музичний Цех. From their web page: "Lviv Music Center is a free association of musicians studying and performing European music of the XIII-XVII centuries." They list the artists at earlymusic.lviv.ua/artists .
Why secular music in a church???!
Io avrei omesso le percussioni: poco elisabettiane
What an excellent ensemble (except for the drum, which adds nothing).
at least say that is your opinion.. not a statement of fact
In your humble opinion
Dowland would not have tolerated it. Especially not a frame drum, played in a jazzy fashion. @@paulcrawford1108
SUPERB