Haunting. Beautifully sung by Iestyn Davies. He is such an extraordinary singer!
@blinkvideo
4 жыл бұрын
Crikey. What a beautiful instrument.
@jencros1
4 жыл бұрын
That baroque lute ain't bad, either.
@ydvoran7632
4 жыл бұрын
It's not the instrument they used at the time at all - it's a single strung Arciliuto, which never existed before the 1950s or 60s...
@blinkvideo
4 жыл бұрын
@@ydvoran7632 Indeed. I myself was talking about the voice. So many amazing young male altos these days. When I switched my major to voice as a "countertenor" in the mid-80s, the faculty didn't know what to do with me at my first jury. "But, is it a real voice?". IU.
@heikorudi6105
3 жыл бұрын
@@ydvoran7632 you are not familiar with the ""lesser french therbo"? There are also original plans for single strung archlutes. But yes Dowland with archlute may never happened. But than a lot of hand Frei's original renaissance lutes where converted to archlutes and baroque lutes
@ydvoran7632
3 жыл бұрын
@@heikorudi6105 Could you tell me exactly where to find the original plans for single strung archlutes? But they weren't possible in the 17th century due to the lack of wound strings. And the French theorbo you speak about is a completely different story, it should have two reentrant courses and be tuned in d, resulting in quite thin strings at s string lenght of about 76cm, so that it works perfectly with blank gut strings. But totally impossible to play Dowland on it.
@nickparish8356
3 жыл бұрын
That lute needs a few more strings, I think. Looks far too easy to play.
@geartvandermeer745
Жыл бұрын
the rest of the strings are for sympathetic vibration.
@user-sp1bi5nc2e
Ай бұрын
Very funny
@humblecharlie4383
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful voice but the song is taken so slow that the listener loses the narrative being told. Feel free to disagree with me.
@thesaucegroup1877
2 жыл бұрын
There's nothing in the text that suggests this should be sung any faster!
@humblecharlie4383
2 жыл бұрын
@@thesaucegroup1877 dear saucy, neither is there nothing in the text that says it shouldn't be sung a little bit quicker. not speeded up to where it loses it's dolorousness but quicker to where it doesn't lose the narrative of the text. that also involves breath control and diaphragmatic support. the singer has to keep in miind that it is a narrative meant to communicate something to the listener and not to just let the listener wallow in the beautiful sounds being emitted by the vocalist. that is just self-love on the singer's part. look at the text without the music and find out where the punctuation provided by dowland is, and that is what you should follow to make the text make sense.
@AnAdorableWombat1
Ай бұрын
It is a song of sorrow. It is supposed to be sung slower. As if the singer is miserable
@user-sp1bi5nc2e
Ай бұрын
I "hear" your point. If you enjoyed the performance, then that is what matters. To each his own.
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