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Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach | Deutsche Grammophon - Original Masters 4777550

Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon - Original Masters

Cat No: 4777550

Barcode: 0028947775508

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 16th June 2008

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Contents

Artists

Julian Bream (guitar, lute)
The Golden Age Singers
Elizabeth Osborn (soprano)
Edith Steinbauer (treble viol)
Beatrice Reichert (alto viol, Tenor viol)
Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol)
Ernst Knava (bass viol)

Artists

Julian Bream (guitar, lute)
The Golden Age Singers
Elizabeth Osborn (soprano)
Edith Steinbauer (treble viol)
Beatrice Reichert (alto viol, Tenor viol)
Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol)
Ernst Knava (bass viol)

About

Julian Bream is one of the greatest masters of the guitar, admired for the intensity of his playing and the beauty of his tone. His advocacy of the Elizabethan repertory pioneered early music in recital form and brought the lute into the world’s concert halls.

This is a 2-CD set of some of Julian Bream’s earliest recordings – none of which has appeared on CD before. The set comprises Bream’s solo Dowland LP (1954) – which was his debüt solo recording, played on lute - and his solo Bach LP (1956), both originally recorded on the Westminster label and justly celebrated at the time. Here they are brought together with a wide selection of Dowland ayres, sung by The Golden Age Singers with Bream’s lute accompaniment.

The CD booklet has a newly commissioned note by Tully Potter, a personal friend of Julian Bream, and includes reproductions of the original LP covers, LP labels and photos of the artists.

Contents:
John Dowland (1563 – 1626)
CD1
Solo lute:
1 Queen Elizabeth's Galliard
2 Lachrimae Antiquae Pavan (= Flow, my tears)
3 Mrs. White's Nothinge
4 Mrs. Vaux's Gigge
5 Farewell (A Fancy)
6 Orlando Sleepeth
7 Fantasia
8 King of Denmark's Galliard
9 Melancholy Galliard
10 My Ladye Hunsdon's Puffe(Almain)
11 Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens
12 Almain [An Unnamed Piece]
13 Sir Henry Umpton’s Funeral (Pavan)
14 Forlorne Hope Fancy

Julian Bream, Lute
Ex Westminster XWN 18429
Recorded. Vienna, Mozartsaal, May 1956

Ayres for 4 voices:
15 If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past
16 Sleep wayward thoughts
17 Awake sweet love
18 Dear, if you change, I’ll never choose again
19 O what hath overwrought my all amazed thought
Ex Westminster XWN 18711
Recorded London, Westminster Studio, 1954

20 Shall I strive with words to move
21 Flow not so fast ye fountains
22 Away with these self-loving lads
23 Come when I call, or tarry till I come
24 Rest awhile, you cruel cares
25 If my complaints
26 Burst forth, my tears
Ex Westminster XWN 18761

CD2 (68’51)
1 Humour say what mak’st thou here
2 Can she excuse my wrongs?
3 His golden locks Time hath to silver turned
4 Stay, Time, awhile thy flying
5 The lowest trees have tops
6 Unquiet thoughts
7 Praise blindness, eyes, for seeing is deceit
8 My heart and tongue were twins
Ex Westminster XWN 18763
Recorded Vienna, Mozartsaal, April – May 1956

The Golden Age Singers
Margaret Field-Hyde, soprano
John Whitworth, countertenor
René Soames, tenor
Gordon Clinton, baritone
with Elizabeth Osborn, soprano (CD 1, track 23)
Directed by Margaret Field-Hyde

Julian Bream, lute
Edith Steinbauer, treble viol
Beatrice Reichert, alto & tenor viol
Frieda Litschauer, tenor viol
Ernst Knava, bass viol
(CD 1, tracks 21 & 23; CD 2, tracks 1; BR, FL, EK: CD 2, track 8)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
9 Partita No.2 in D minor (for solo violin), BWV 1004: Chaconne
10 Little Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 (played in D minor)

Suite in E minor, BWV 996:
11 Sarabande
12 Bourrée

Partita in C minor BWV 997 (played in A minor):
13 Prelude
14 Fugue

Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major, BWV 998 (played in D major)
15 Prelude
16 Fugue – attacca:
17 Allegro

Julian Bream, guitar
Ex Westminster XWN 18428
Recorded: Vienna, Mozartsaal, May 1956

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