Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | Semper Dowland semper Dolens

Rich sounding viols, lively percussion and spicy theorbo and guitar in eclectic consort music from Jordi Savall and Hesperian XXI in their 50th year. 

There comes a stage in every countertenor’s career when he feels himself ready to tackle the exposed repertoire of John Dowland, and hence the need to find himself a talented lutenist.

A near capacity audience gathered at the Wigmore Hall last week to celebrate another English musical anniversary – not the birth of Benjamin Britten one hundred years ago, but that of lutenist and composer John Dowland, some 350 years earlier.

In besungener Tragik nur denkbar knapp und streng an der Höchstwertung vorbei, macht das Ensemble Jupiter die Dowland-Feierstunde in Köln aber zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis.