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John Potter

Amores Pasados

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08/14/2015 - Radovljica Festival / Radovljica, Slovenia
09/05/2015 - Estella Festival / Estella, Spain
09/17/2015 - Convergencies Festival / Bratislava, Slovakia
09/19/2015 - Brighton Early Music Festival / Brighton, UK
09/20/2015 - Improvisations Festival / Gliwice, Poland
10/05/2015 - Festival Les Voix Humaines / Havana, Cuba
1 Lope de Vega Carpio - Al son de los arroyuelos
2 Gustavo Adolfo Becquer - No dormia
3 Anon C15 - So ell encina Anon, C15 4:32
4 John Fletcher Peter Warlock - Sleep
5 Thomas Campion - Follow thy fair sun
6 Thomas Campion - Oft have I sighed
7 Picforth (fl. c. 1580) - In nomine 1 2:30
8 Thomas Campion - The cypress curtain of the night  
9 A E Housman | E. J. Moeran - Oh Fair enough are sky and plain
10 Tony Banks - The cypress curtain of the night (var.)
11 Picforth - In nomine 2 2:17
12 Sting - Bury me deep in the greenwood
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"A hundred years ago, a song was just a song – it belonged to whoever sang it while they were singing it. Any music could be ‘popular' music, with barrow boys whistling Verdi arias in the street," writes vocalist John Potter in the liner notes to his newest ECM recording, Amores Pasados. Yet, as he points out, there eventually became a category of "art song," as distinct from popular and folk song; the advent of radio and recordings brought professional interpreters of those art songs, superseding amateur singers gathered around a piano with Schubert sheet music in hand. As the 20th-century wore on, the opposite of art song became known as the "pop song," with purveyors of the latter often singing the songs themselves, blending original lyrics with their music. With Amores Pasados, Potter aims to refract the concepts of art song and popular song through a double prism. Along with interpreting folk-inflected songs by composers from the Renaissance to the 20th century, he performs art songs written by English artists known for their feats in popular music: John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks and Sting.

  • John Potter: Amores Pasados is Classic 107 Winnipeg - August Recording of the Month
    Posted At: August 12, 2015 12:00 AM

    On John Potter: Amores Pasados, this innovative attempt to bridge the gap between art song and pop song, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Sting and Genesis-keyboardist Tony Banks were commissioned to write new lute songs. "Asking a rock music composer to set existing poetry within a genre we knew well meant that we singers wouldn't need to pretend to be pop singers – we were still &...
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