Stephen (...) launched into praises of Shakespeare's songs, at least of in or about that period, the lutenist Dowland who lived in Fetter Lane near Gerard the herbalist,(...)"
James Joyce - Ulysses - Ch.16
It's available for listening and purchase on bandcamp my new work: a collection of interpretations of five songs by the composer John Dowland (1563-1626).
I consider this album a chapter of the "Chamber Music" project, devoted to the translation and musical adaptation of James Joyce's poems collected in the book of the same name (here you can find the first part). At the suggestion of Enrico Terrinoni I undertook the work on Chamber Music keeping in mind lies Joyce's passion for English music of the Renaissance period, of which Dowland is one of the best known and - today - performed exponents.
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