John Dowland, A Dream - Hopkinson Smith

Hopkinson Smith himself writes:

Dowland speaks. In many ways. The viols whose crossing voices and passing dissonances slide lachrymoneously by each other like eels in a bucket; his "dwell" set to languish in infinite stillness at the end of "In darkness let me."; his lighter pieces full of energy, subtlety, wit and charm. He must have had wide swings of mood: on one side, the tortured professional recluse only just surviving the deepest despair, on the other, his laughter and masterfully constructed frivolity or his contrapuntal energy inspiring one section of an improvisatory fantasy after another like an soccer player weaving in and out of adversaries as he goes alone for the goal. And Dowland speaks to us. One can't help but be fascinated by the lyrical world of melancholy and mirth. His message is intensely personal, - we all find something of ourselves therein. The pavin called "A Dream" is certainly worthy of Dowland. A dream can be many things: the passage to another world, hope, a whole spectrum of sensations between darkness and light. Giving this title to the program is meant as an invitation to penetrate the world of the inner senses that is the domain of the lute in general and has an added personal intensity in the music of Dowland.



1. The Frog Galliard, for lute, P 23
2. A Dream, pavan for lute, P 75 (possibly spurious)
3. Lady Hunsdon's Almain (Lady Hunsdon's Puffe), for lute, P 54
4. La mia Barbara, pavan for lute, P 95
5. K. Darcy's Spirit (The Right Honourable the Lady Clifton's Spirit), galliard for lute, P 45
6. Galliard (on a galliard by Daniel Bacheler), for lute in C minor, P 28
7. Mellancoly Galliard, for lute, P 25
8. Sir John Smith, his Almain, for lute, P 47
9. Lachrimae Pavan, for keyboard or lute (from "Lachrimae")
10. Fantasia, for lute in G major, P 1
11. Pavin (Composed by Landgrave of Hesse Mauritius)
12. The King of Denmark, his Galliard, for lute, P 40
13. Farewell Fancy (Chromatic fantasia), for lute, P 3
14. Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard (The Queen's Galliard), for lute, P 97
15. Earl of Essex, his Galliard, for lute, P 89
16. Semper Dowland semper dolens, pavan for lute, P 9
17. Fantasia, for lute in G minor, P 6
18. The Lady Rich, her Galliard, for lute
19. Fortune My Foe, song arranged for lute, P 62
20. Mrs Whittes Nothing, for lute, P 56

Hopkinson Smith, luit huite choeurs / eight-course lute, Joël van Lennep 2002



FLAC Download (separate tracks):

http://rapidshare.com/files/13134339/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13134715/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13135664/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13136568/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13137205/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13139149/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13139990/DowlandHopkinsonSmith.part7.rar

APE Download (all the CD in one track):
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http://www.shareonall.com/DowlandDreamHopkinsonSmithAPE.part3_gudx.rar
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The tablature of the complete works for solo lute of Dowland in the transcription of Richard Civiol, as well as the score of the complete ayres and songs for lute by Laura Conrad can be downloaded here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/21186820/DowlandTabScore.rar

Check my previous posts of lute / baroque guitar performed by Hopkinson Smith:
• Francisco Guerau, Poema harmónico
• Alonso Mudarra, Tres libros de musica
• François Dufaut, Manuscrits
• Albert de Rippe, Tabulature de Leut
• Kapsperger, Libro primo d’intavolatura di lauto
• Gaspar Sanz, Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española
• Bach, Suites BWV 1010 & 1012 pour luth baroque
• Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Pièces de luth
• Robert de Visée, théorbe
• Charles Mouton
• Bach, Lute Works
• Ennemond Gaultier ("Le Vieux Gaultier")
• Jacques Gallot ("Le Vieux Gallot de Paris")