ALL WE GET IS LIFE
Thélème, Sting
Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
You might think Dowland, Cage and Sting strange bedfellows but a common thread of intimacy and concise expression in performance unifies this gentle yet sensational album. Having succeed so well with Josquin (11/21), Jean-Christophe Groffe now directs a project that may seem excessively idiosyncratic from the outside but which has surprising sonic coherence from within. The spine is formed from songs for two voices and lute by John Dowland. Ivo Haun and Groffe himself are a delightful vocal pairing, with almost telepathic accompaniment from Ziv Braha. They keep text at the forefront and in ‘I saw my lady weepe’ manage to invoke melancholy without sacrificing the sting of the words.
To read the full text of this review please visit Gramophone, December 2024
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