Program: #13-32 Air Date: Aug 05, 2013
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Having heard John Potter from the mid-'70s last week, we turn to his latest release on ECM with the Dowland Project (plus Keith Jarrett's new Bach project).
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the ECM label. For more information:
http://www.ecmrecords.com/Startseite/startseite.php
I. The Dowland Project: Night Sessions (ECM 2018)
From its inception, John Potter’s Dowland Project has drawn upon different musical traditions including those of ‘early music’ and improvisation. These “Night Sessions” emphasize the Project’s improvisational flexibility and resourcefulness, as the musicians create new music in the moment, sometimes with medieval poetry as inspirational reference and guide. There are also a number of ‘daytime’ pieces worked up, Potter notes, from small amounts of notation: ‘Menino Jesus á Lappa’ is based on Portuguese pilgrim song fragments and ‘Theoleptus 22’ built around a Byzantine chant. Lute fantasias are taken from Dalza’s Intabolatura de Lauto (Venice, 1508) and Attaignant’s Tres breve et familiere introduction…a jouer toutes chansons (Paris, 1529). The oldest compositions are Can vei la lauzeta mover – a love song by the 12th century troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn, and Fumeux fume by the 14thcentury avant-gardist Solage. Two incarnations of the Dowland Project are heard here, the original band with Potter, Stephen Stubbs and John Surman joined by Barry Guy and Maya Homburger, and the revised line-up with Milos Valent on violin and viola.
John Potter tenor
John Surman saxophones, bass clarinet, percussion
Stephen Stubbs lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar, vihuela
Maya Homburger violin
Miloš Valent violin, viola
Barry Guy double bass
First descent
Menino Jesus à Lappa
Recercar (Joan Ambrosio Dalza)
Can vei la lauzeta mover
First triage (Bernart de Ventadorn)
Man in the moon
Corpus Christi
Whistling in the dark
Swart mekerd smethes
Fumeux fume (Solage)
Hortus ignotus
Mystery play
I sing of a maiden
Theoleptus 22
Second descent
Second triage
Prelude (Pierre Attaignant)
II. Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (ECM 2230/31)
- Michelle Makarski, violin
- Keith Jarrett, piano
BACH: Keyboard Sonata No. 4 in c minor, BWV 1017
Composer Info
Johann Sebastian Bach;
CD Info
ECM 2018, ECM 2230/31