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1.In Praise of Woman from: Hyperion July 01, 1994
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Although most of the music in this recital is unknown (the most obvious exception being Woodford Finden's Kashmiri Song), listening to it makes you wonder why. Anthony Rolfe Johnson's voice has matured into the ideal for intimate music such as this, with a "grainy" texture adding to his younger lyricism; Graham Johnson is, as ever, the ideal accompanist. Although a couple of the earlier songs are rather cloying in their Victorianism, the disc erupts into life with Maud Valerie White's My Soul Is An Enchanted Boat - once regarded as one of the most beautiful songs ever, and now inexplicably forgotten. Somehow, the remainder of the disc lives up to this - whether through the music (Smyth's Possession being a particularly good example) ... Read More:

2.Care Charming Sleep from: ECM New Series October 20, 2003
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First let me get the negatives off my chest: this CD is really difficult to find in any physical shop. The problem for the retailer is this: where to file it? The CD is by 'The Dowland Project', yet it contains no songs by John Dowland. The composers contributing the most songs to the album are the not-very-well-known Cipriano da Rore and Robert Johnson (not the blues guitarist!). The convention with classical CDs is to file by composer, so this CD gets lost in the enormous 'Various Artists' category. Alternatively you can file the CD by star performer, but there again, ECM has created a problem for the CD-buying public: the only performer listed on the cover of this CD is John Potter, but I suspect the contributing artist who pulls in most ECM fans ... Read More:

3.Songs from the Labyrinth by: Sting November 10, 2008
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First let me get the negatives off my chest: this CD is really difficult to find in any physical shop. The problem for the retailer is this: where to file it? The CD is by 'The Dowland Project', yet it contains no songs by John Dowland. The composers contributing the most songs to the album are the not-very-well-known Cipriano da Rore and Robert Johnson (not the blues guitarist!). The convention with classical CDs is to file by composer, so this CD gets lost in the enormous 'Various Artists' category. Alternatively you can file the CD by star performer, but there again, ECM has created a problem for the CD-buying public: the only performer listed on the cover of this CD is John Potter, but I suspect the contributing artist who pulls in most ECM fans ... Read More:

4.Songs from the Labyrinth by: Sting October 27, 2008
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First let me get the negatives off my chest: this CD is really difficult to find in any physical shop. The problem for the retailer is this: where to file it? The CD is by 'The Dowland Project', yet it contains no songs by John Dowland. The composers contributing the most songs to the album are the not-very-well-known Cipriano da Rore and Robert Johnson (not the blues guitarist!). The convention with classical CDs is to file by composer, so this CD gets lost in the enormous 'Various Artists' category. Alternatively you can file the CD by star performer, but there again, ECM has created a problem for the CD-buying public: the only performer listed on the cover of this CD is John Potter, but I suspect the contributing artist who pulls in most ECM fans ... Read More:

5.The Journey & The Labyrinth - The Music Of John Dowland by: Sting February 19, 2007
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When his first Dowland approach was released a few years ago, there was a gentleman from the States that pointed right here in this pages that Sting's recording is far from what we should expect from a year 2000 journey into John Dowland's music and, if somebody is really willing to hit the sky into this direction, then ECM Records recordings with The Dowland Project is the right answer. It is still indubitable truth and though I pretty much appreciate most of the Sting Projects or The Music of Police Projects, I should advise Sting to stick on being played by others, not to perform what he obviously isn't, a classical trained singer.

6.Songs From The Labyrinth by: Sting October 09, 2006
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This 're-imagining' of some of the best works of one of England's most important composers is a woeful failure. The most prominent failing of this album, is that Sting simply does not have a strong enough voice to carry off such songs. His voice lacks the range and subtlety needed to effectively communicate the melancholic poetry of Dowland's lyrics. Sting's attempt is rather like sculpting a reproduction of Michelangelo's David with a sledgehammer! Despite, the limitations of Sting's vocal skills, which were in fairness largely to be expected(it would come as quite a shock if he had managed to match Alfred Deller!), the project could have been saved by an interesting 're-imagining' of the songs. I am afraid to say that it isn't! Sting's interpretation ... Read More:

7.Songs from the Labyrinth [VINYL] by: Sting, Edin Karamazov September 26, 2006
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From the outset let me say that I have always been a huge fan of Sting, and of John Dowland. But I was unsure that the two could possibly go together. Having listened to the CD several times now, I am still unsure but the idea is growing on me. Let's face it, Sting is not the world's best vocalist, his breathy nasal voice being well-suited to ska and light jazz, but ultimately tending to be tiresome. The problem is not just his voice, but perhaps more his odd vowel sounds which have always been a little unnatural and that is very obvious here with his voice rather forward in the mix. So my first thought was that there are many very beautiful renderings of this material by specialists like Ian Partridge and Sting's offering seemed to add nothing ... Read More:

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