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Article: JOHN POTTER, TENOR JOHN DOWLAND: IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL ECM RECORDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2000
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The back of ECM's new Dowland disc is guarantee to startle the
early-music crowd. The accompaniment includes baroque violin, bass,
and lute (in the capable hands of Stephen Stubbs, the co-artistic
director of the Boston Early Music Festival). But it also includes
John Surman, doubling on soprano sax and bass clarinet, both
instruments that did not exist in Dowland's time. ECM is a label that
reaches out to a New Age audience, or as tenor John Potter puts it in
his program note, the performers have "re-negotiated the music with
the long-dead composer." This doesn't mean that "Weep You No More,
Sad Fountains" is performed as a nightclub number; the saxophone
contributes ...