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Article: [ Sting is now a true Renaissance man. As in Elizabethan, with lutes and the music of 16th-century composer John Dowland. ... ]
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- Daily Breeze
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- October 27, 2006
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Sting is now a true Renaissance man. As in Elizabethan, with lutes
and the music of 16th-century composer John Dowland.
The pop singer of today tackles what he rightly sees as the pop
music of the late 1500s -- with substantial and well-wrought help
from Serbian lutenist Edin Karamazov. It was he who introduced Sting
to the works of the composer who captured the hearts of the people,
if not Queen Elizabeth I herself (he was Catholic; complications
ensued).
Sting did learn to play the lute for this recording but wisely
leaves the heavy fingering to Karamazov, who plays Dowland clearly
and rhythmically.
The songs are tied together by Sting's readings of Dowland's
letter to one of QEI's ...