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Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland

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John Holloway Performs with the J. S. Bach Foundation
1 Dowland: Lachrime Antiquae
2 Purcell: Fantasy upon one note
3 Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
4 Lawes: 2 Airs for 4
5 Dowland: Lachrimae Gementes
6 Jenkins: Fantasy No. 12 for 2 Trebles and Bass
7 Dowland: Lachrime Tristes
8 Morley: Lamento for 2 from Canzonets for two voyces
9 Dowland: Lachrimae Coactae
10 Locke: Fantasy for 2 Trebles and Bass from The Broken Consort
11 Dowland: Lachrimae Amantis
12 Lawes: Fantasy in C for 5
13 Dowland: Lachrimae Verae
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The composition of Lachrimae Pavans, one of the great works in the canon of English chamber music, was begun in Denmark at the end of the 16th century, while John Dowland was working as a lutenist at the court of King Christian IV. A unique seven-part work developing a theme from Dowland's famous song "Flow my teares" and exploring all its contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities, it is also music of persuasive emotional power. "How well he seems to have understood the power of music to move us," writes John Holloway in the liner notes, and "to express otherwise inexpressible emotions. He called them ‘passionate pavans', and within the stately constrained movements of the slow dance, passions are indeed to be found."

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  • John Holloway Ensemble - Henry Purcell: Fantazias is concise. Rewarding musically but also pleasingly flab-free / textura
    Posted At: November 8, 2023 12:00 AM
    Henry Purcell’s “fantazias” are regarded as some of the finest and most intricately wrought examples of the fantasia, due to their profound embrace of counterpoint and great command of the polyphonal techniques of the time. Composed in the summer of 1680 – a time when the fantasia was already considered old-fashioned and had been replaced by the sonata –, Purcell’s “fantazias” turned out to be the very last...
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  • John Holloway Ensemble's playing is excellent as they create a different sound for Henry Purcell's 'Fantazias' / CD Hotlist
    Posted At: November 1, 2023 12:00 AM
    Henry Purcell’s “fantazias” are regarded as some of the finest and most intricately wrought examples of the fantasia, due to their profound embrace of counterpoint and great command of the polyphonal techniques of the time. Composed in the summer of 1680 – a time when the fantasia was already considered old-fashioned and had been replaced by the sonata –, Purcell’s “fantazias” turned out to be the very last...
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  • John Holloway on life after the violin / VAN Q&A
    Posted At: October 5, 2023 12:00 AM
    VAN's Jeffrey Arlo Brown writes…..John Holloway plays the Baroque violin with a sinewy sweetness, his lines as textured and alive as the bark of a tree or the hand of a nonagenarian. That his career started on the modern violin in a conventional orchestra—after conservatory, Holloway was briefly principal second in the Bournemouth Sinfonietta—now seems as improbable as late Heldentenor Stephen Gould working...
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  • John Dowland - Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland / KDFC 'Download Of the Week'
    Posted At: July 23, 2014 12:00 AM

    Each week KDFC - San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. The composition of Lachrimae Pavans, one of the great works in the canon of English chamber music, was begun in Denmark at the end of the 16th century, while John Dowland was working as a lutenist at the court of King Christian IV. A unique seven-part work developing a theme f...
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  • John Holloway - Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland / Gapplegate Music review
    Posted At: July 15, 2014 12:00 AM

    John Dowland's music often had a special melancholic mood to it, no more so than in his Pavans. Over his lifetime (1563-1626) and in that age in general there were others who wrote music that was tinged with a sadness that must have struck a nerve with the music audiences of the day. John Holloway's Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland (ECM New Series B0020796-02) gives us an entire progr...
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  • John Holloway - Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland / The Strad review
    Posted At: July 10, 2014 12:00 AM

    John Holloway - Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland: John Dowland's seven Lachrimae Pavans punctuate this CD, always gently moving, given impetus by the interplay of parts, as the players come to prominence and give way to one another, constantly shifting from light to shade and back beneath the gentle surfaces. Works by Dowland's near-contemporaries are interspersed between each musical...
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  • John Holloway - Pavans and Fantasies is WFMT 'New Release Of the Week'
    Posted At: June 29, 2014 12:00 AM

    John Dowland's Lachrimae Pavans is considered one of the greatest works in the canon of English chamber music. Based on his famous song "Flow My Teares," the seven pavans present an extraordinary exploration of the contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities offered by the theme. Baroque violinist John Holloway creates a concert program around the pavans. Threaded between Dowland's masterpieces ...
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