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Cage and Dowland: the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for soberexpression, concise forms and intimate realisation - and for the pleasure that comes from words assuch.
Each cultivates this desire in his own way: Cageundertakes, 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 alongside superstar Sting, he offers a reworking of ‘Shape of My Heart’, a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle in an album where Renaissance and present meet, enter into dialogue, mingle and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.
Press - Reviews & features in Gramophone, The Strad, BBC Music Magazine, Rondo, Opera America, Opera Internartional, Opéra Magazine, Opera Now, Diapason, Classica, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, Télérama, LesEchos.
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