Damien Guillon, Eric Bellocq – Damien Guillon – Eric Bellocq : Dowland: Lute Songs (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Damien Guillon, Eric Bellocq – Damien Guillon – Eric Bellocq : Dowland: Lute Songs (2011)
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Damien Guillon has chosen for his first solo recital disc a refined, subtle and melancholy repertoire, which he has gone on to explore in depth and polish in genuine chamber style with the lutenist Eric Bellocq, an expert in Renaissance music.

“Dowland is heir to the English polyphonic tradition (middle age conception) where words and music coincide not on meaning but through proportions generated by the planets, however he also explores the new modes of expression which were emerging on the continent related to italian renaissance which linked meaning of the words and musical effect, favoring harmony towards polyphony.

His ambivalent attitude seems to have caught the attention of the performers on this recording. Damien Guillon and Éric Bellocq succeed in finding an unprecedented balance between these two facets of the composer’s art. Both singer and lutenist dramatise their discourse by means of great variety of dynamics, yet without breaking up the polyphonic lines.” Jean-Luc Tamby

Eric Bellocq plays a liuto forte from André Burguete’s conception, an instrument which enables the player to develop a larger sound possibilities creating a true dialogue with the singer and a great freedom in improvisation.

Damien Guillon started at an early age as a member of child’s choir Brittany, then at the Versailles Baroque Center while studying organ and harpsichord. In 2004, he was admitted to the countertenor Andreas Scholl’s class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis… He was soon spotted by such well-known conductors as Jordi Savall, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, Jérôme Correas, Philippe Pierlot, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Christophe Rousset, William Christie, and Philippe Herreweghe.

He has founded his own ensemble, Le Banquet Céleste, with which he has performed at Les Nuits Musicales d’Uzès and the Froville Festival. Their repertoire includes Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and the cantatas for alto and obbligato organ of J. S. Bach, which will be Damien Guillon’s next recording project on Zig-Zag Territoires.

Tracklist:

1-1. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Can She Excuse My Wrongs (02:41)
1-2. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – Philip Rosseter, Composer – What Then Is Love but Mourning (02:05)
1-3. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Come Away, Come Sweet Love (02:22)
1-4. Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Sir John Smith, His Almain (02:44)
1-5. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Sorrow, Stay (03:33)
1-6. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Burst Forth My Tears (04:24)
1-7. Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Galliard to Lachrimae (03:30)
1-8. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Flow My Tears (04:04)
1-9. Eric Bellocq, Performer – Anonyme, Composer – The Eglantine Branche (01:47)
1-10. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – A Shepherd In a Shade (02:32)
1-11. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Away With These Self-Loving Lads (02:37)
1-12. Eric Bellocq, Performer – Anonyme, Composer – The Gilly Flower (00:55)
1-13. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Say Love If Ever Thou Didst Find (01:51)
1-14. Eric Bellocq, Performer – Robert Johnson, Composer – Almayn (00:50)
1-15. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Fine Knacks for Ladies (02:14)
1-16. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Awake Sweet Love (02:39)
1-17. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – I Saw My Lady Weep (05:28)
1-18. Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Mr Dowland’s Midnight (00:55)
1-19. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Dear, If You Change (03:20)
1-20. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Now, O Now I Needs Must Part (04:36)
1-21. Damien Guillon, Performer – Eric Bellocq, Performer – John Dowland, Composer – Come Heavy Sleep (04:59)

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