Theleme- All We Get Is Life
Cage and Dowland: the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for sober expression, concise forms and intimate realization - and for the pleasure that comes from words as such. Each cultivates this desire in his own way. Cage, like a tightrope walker, approaches the essence of musical thought with humor, lightness, and depth, and Dowland aims for the expression of feelings in their purest form. Cultivating as always a fertile anachronism, the Thélème ensemble brings together the complete works for two voices and lute by Dowland, several compositions by Cage, and world-renowned artist Sting offers a reworking of his hit song, "Shape of My Heart", which in this new arrangement becomes a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle on an album where Renaissance and present meet, mingle, and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.
Track List
- Dowland: Song Books
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Cage: Five
- Cage: Song Books
- Dowland: Lady If You So Spight Mee
- Cage: Eight Whiskus
- Cage: Dream
- Dowland: I Saw My Lady Weepe
- Dowland: Flow My Teares
- Dowland: A Dream
- Cage: She Is Asleep
- Cage: A Room
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Shape of My Heart (Featuring Sting)
Cage and Dowland: the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for sober expression, concise forms and intimate realization - and for the pleasure that comes from words as such. Each cultivates this desire in his own way. Cage, like a tightrope walker, approaches the essence of musical thought with humor, lightness, and depth, and Dowland aims for the expression of feelings in their purest form. Cultivating as always a fertile anachronism, the Thélème ensemble brings together the complete works for two voices and lute by Dowland, several compositions by Cage, and world-renowned artist Sting offers a reworking of his hit song, "Shape of My Heart", which in this new arrangement becomes a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle on an album where Renaissance and present meet, mingle, and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.
Track List
- Dowland: Song Books
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Cage: Five
- Cage: Song Books
- Dowland: Lady If You So Spight Mee
- Cage: Eight Whiskus
- Cage: Dream
- Dowland: I Saw My Lady Weepe
- Dowland: Flow My Teares
- Dowland: A Dream
- Cage: She Is Asleep
- Cage: A Room
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs
- Shape of My Heart (Featuring Sting)