Well, Mark, on the CD at least it's a genuine lutenist playing on nearly
all the tracks, Sting mainly keeps to "singing" in a dry untrained voice
with a strange pop articulation & accent that does the music no favours
at all. Funny to think it went to No 1 in the "classical charts" & quite
high in the pop charts. "Dowland should sue" - was that an allusive pun?
(cf. Songs Bk.II, No.19)
mj
Mark Weiss wrote:
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> On the other hand, Sting has discovered John Dowland, heaven help us.
> Dowland should sue, but so should every lutanist who actually knows
> how to play the instrument.
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> Mark
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> A
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