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Thread started 12/18/06 6:40am

Lennon

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The new Sting cd is really beautiful!

As i expected, this album has become a very beautiful piece of work.. Sting's great voice combined with this middleages lute instrument is just pefect!

I saw a perfomance of Sting with this lute player on German TV, some Jose Carreras show, and really... if u can sing such songs live, u are a true artist!

If u like Sting (not Police) and if u are into classical music.. here's ur Christmas present!

And the I-pod version has got some nic extra's (like a lute version of Fields of gold)

He will also tour some nice European classical venues!!

18/02/2007 Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
19/02/2007 Stadtcasino, Basel, Switzerland
21/02/2007 Teatro Del Maggio, Florence, Italy
22/02/2006 Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome, Italy
23/02/2007 Teatro Arcimboldi, Milan, Italy
25/02/2007 Herkulessaal, Munich, Germany
27/02/2007 Jahrunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
28/02/2007 Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany
01/03/2007 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland
03/03/2007 Queen Elizabeth Hall, Antwerp, Belgium
05/03/2007 Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
07/03/2007 Tonhalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
08/03/2007 Festspielhaus, Baden Baden, Germany
10/03/2007 Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria
12/03/2007 Beethovensaal, Stuttgart, Germany




Look here for some video to get a better impression
http://www.youtube.com/wa...RHutMf7_bU
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Reply #1 posted 12/18/06 6:46am

cubic61052

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I am a huge Sting fan, and have always appreciated his jazz and classical influence - even back in the days of Police.

However to be honest, I have this CD and I cannot seem to get into it - I'm just not feeling it.

I'll give it another chance, and maybe it will be a good listen for holiday time.

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Reply #2 posted 12/18/06 7:51am

PurpleJam

Even though I would not consider myself a real big fan of Sting's music, I do love reading his lyrics as he is very creative with his words.
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Reply #3 posted 12/18/06 10:52am

Lennon

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PurpleJam said:

Even though I would not consider myself a real big fan of Sting's music, I do love reading his lyrics as he is very creative with his words.


This cd doesn't contain any of his own lyrics..... but from John Downland

Dowland, John (b London, ?1563; d London, 1626). Eng. composer, singer, and lutenist. Mus.B. Oxon 1588. From 1580 to 1584 was in service of Brit. Ambassador to Paris where he became RC. Lutenist at courts at Brunswick, Hesse, Venice, Florence, and Nuremberg, 1595. Lutenist to King of Denmark 1598-1606. Returned to London 1606; lutenist to Lord Howard de Walden 1606-12; musician to James I 1612. Though noted in his day as a virtuoso lutenist and singer, he is now recognized as a great composer, whose songs melodically and harmonically advanced the ‘art song’. His printed songs numbered 87 of which 84 appeared in 4 vols.: 3 Books of Songs or Ayres, 1597, 1600, 1603, and A Pilgrims Solace, 1612), and 3 in his son Robert's Musical Banquet, 1614. Among his finest songs are Awake, Sweet Love; Come again Sweet Love; Fine Knacks for Ladies; Flow my Tears; Flow not so fast, ye Fountains; In Darkness let me Dwell; Sweet, stay awhile; Weep ye no more, sad Fountains; Welcome black night. Among his other comps. are the Lachrimae of 1604, which contains 21 instr. items incl. the celebrated Semper Dowland semper dolens, and many pieces for solo lute, incl. Walsingham, Loth to Depart, My Lady Hunsdons Puffe, Queen Elizabeths Galliard, and Dowlands Adew.
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