David Gorton: Variations on John Dowland

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Catalogue No: TOCC0396
EAN/UPC: 5060113443960
Release Date: 2017-02-01
Composer: David Gorton
Artists: Longbow, Stefan Östersjö

John Dowland’s pavan Lachrimae was one of the hits of the early 1600s: musicians all over Europe made their own versions of it. The English composer David Gorton (b. 1978) proves that Dowland’s fascination endures, with this album of music that has its points of departure in Dowland, linking his time and ours over a span of 400 years – with a dig at some contemporary politicians along the way.

Longbow (Tracks 1,2-12, 21)
Stefan Östersjö, eleven-string alto guitar (Tracks 13-20)

Listen To This Recording:

    John Dowland arr. Gorton: Flow my teares fall from your springs (1600, arr. 2013)

  1. Flow my teares fall from your springs
  2. David Gorton: Lachrymae Variations (2014)

  3. Introduction
  4. Theme
  5. Variation I
  6. Variation II
  7. Refrain
  8. Variation III
  9. Variation IV
  10. Refrain
  11. Variation V
  12. Thomas Morley arr. Gorton: Pavana and Galiarda (c. 1590, arr. 2015)

  13. Pavana
  14. Galiarda
  15. John Dowland arr. Stefan Östersjö: Forlorn Hope Fancy (c. 1590, arr. 2010)

  16. Forlorn Hope Fancy
  17. David Gorton: Forlorn Hope (2011)

  18. Contrapuntal Fantasia
  19. Dr Cable’s Pavan
  20. Fantasia on 1 to 4
  21. Mr Hunt’s Thing, Almain
  22. Fantasia on 10 and 11
  23. The Right Honourable David, Minister 3:36 of State for Universities and Science 2:26 (attending Cabinet), his Galliard
  24. Harmonic Fantasia
  25. John Dowland, set William Byrd arr. David Gorton: Pavana Lachrymae (c. 1600, arr. 2013)

  26. Pavana Lachrymae

First Recordings

2 reviews for David Gorton: Variations on John Dowland

  1. :

    ‘The performances of the string pieces by Longbow and of the guitar pieces by Stefan Östersjö make a very good case for the music, none of it easier to play than it is to absorb. The recording is good, too, and the notes are helpful and informative.’

    —Brian Wilson, MusicWEeb International

  2. :

    ‘There are variations both rich and strange in this collection, from intensely contrapuntal elaborations to atmospheric developments which hint at the original through gesture and the blurred boundaries of dissonance and chance, though always resolving or stretching towards resolution. […] there are enough jaw-dropping moments of strange beauty to make this something rather special. […]

    Well recorded and presented with the Toccata label’s usual good standards, this is an intriguing programme that is worthy of investigation – certainly for the Lachrymae Variations. Peter Sheppard Skærved’s Longbow is a very fine band, both in this marvellous swirl of modernity and the more or less straight arrangements.’

    —Dominy Clements, MusicWeb International

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