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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
… Read moreSting, 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.
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