Lachrymae or Seaven Teares
DOWLAND John (1563-1626)
Hathor Consort (gamba consort)
Label : Fuga Libera
Artikelnummer: FUG718
1 CD Spielzeit : 067:44
CHF 22.50
Seven pavanes for five viols and lute form the core of this collection, expressing the Elizabethan fascination and obsession with melancholy. Marsilio Ficino, the influential Florentine Neoplatonist, considered melancholy to be the result of human beings pining after their heavenly origins, and this could open the way to deep contemplation and communion with the divine. Tears were the physical manifestation of such inspired melancholy, flowing as it were from the soul itself.