Jakob Lindberg – Nocturnal (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Jakob Lindberg – Nocturnal (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:17 minutes | 2,91 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BIS

This is a bouquet of works for lute by Elizabethan and Jacobean composers, in the expert hands of Jakob Lindberg; the more famous are by Dowland, Byrd and Holborne, and the rarer works are by John Johnson, Daniel Bacheler and Edward Collard, without forgetting the most prolific writer of all time, “Anonymous”. And so the track-list is already original enough; but Lindberg’s big idea is to perform, as the central pivot of the album Nocturnal by Benjamin Britten, written in 1963 for the guitarist Julian Bream, but on the lute. With the authorisation of the Britten Foundation, of course, and making use of the composer’s preparatory manuscripts; and given how much Britten loved the lute, we can easily imagine how much he would have applauded this translation from guitar to lute. And it is true that the more velvety, less brilliant, sound of the lute offers a new reading of the work, underlining both its modern and deliberately archaic sides. And so it is an excellent idea to juxtapose the 16th and 17th centuries with the 20th, given that Britten has already provided us such a beautiful bridge between them.

Tracklist:

1-1. Jakob Lindberg – The Honie-suckle (01:46)
1-2. Jakob Lindberg – Muy Linda (01:22)
1-3. Jakob Lindberg – The Night Watch (01:37)
1-4. Jakob Lindberg – The Countess of Pembroke’s Paradise (04:21)
1-5. Jakob Lindberg – The Fairy Round (01:27)
1-6. Jakob Lindberg – Go from My Window (03:21)
1-7. Jakob Lindberg – Hugh Aston’s Ground (04:51)
1-8. Jakob Lindberg – Pavane No. 18 (05:04)
1-9. Jakob Lindberg – Mrs. Anne Grene Her Leaves Be Greene (04:59)
1-10. Jakob Lindberg – Lady Margaret’s Lute Book: The Flowers of the Forest (01:06)
1-11. Jakob Lindberg – Remember Me at Evening (01:22)
1-12. Jakob Lindberg – The English Nightingale (02:59)
1-13. Jakob Lindberg – Lullaby (Arr. F. Cutting for Lute) (04:02)
1-14. Jakob Lindberg – Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70 (Reflections on “Come, Heavy Sleep”) [Arr. J. Lindberg for Lute] (18:04)
1-15. Jakob Lindberg – A Dream, P. 75 (02:43)
1-16. Jakob Lindberg – A Fancy, P. 6 (02:42)
1-17. Jakob Lindberg – Orlando Sleepeth, P. 61 (01:16)
1-18. Jakob Lindberg – Galliard to Lachrimae, P. 46 (03:04)
1-19. Jakob Lindberg – Mr. Dowland’s Midnight, P. 99 (00:56)
1-20. Jakob Lindberg – Farewell, P. 3 (05:31)
1-21. Jakob Lindberg – Passingmeasures Pavan (02:57)
1-22. Jakob Lindberg – Carman’s Whistle (02:23)
1-23. Jakob Lindberg – Good Night and Good Rest (05:11)

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