Early Music Vancouver: Dowland Lachrimae feat. Les Voix Humaines & Lutenist Nigel North

Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM

Star British lutenist Nigel North joins Canada’s now-legendary viol consort, Les Voix Humaines, for a performance of John Dowland’s 1604 Lachrimae. This iconic collection of passionate pavans, galiards, and almands is replete with musical effects, dissonances and suspensions that powerfully evoke the melancholic subjects that re-appear throughout Dowland’s compositions: the agonies of the soul, night, and darkness. This performance will also include the premiere of a new work by Quebec composer Stacey Brown commissioned for Les Voix Humaines by Early Music Vancouver.

“The group’s blend is soft-woven and wonderfully fibrous, full of textural interest. Extensive ornamentation throughout the disc and a rhetorical approach to line give the music a pleasing, madrigal-like freedom.” – Gramophone Magazine

Presented in collaboration with Music on Main’s Modulus Festival
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