All We Get Is Life
Thélème, Sting- CAGE - Solo for Voice 49 - The Year Begins to Be Ripe
- DOWLAND - Dye not Before Thy Day
- DOWLAND - Mourne, Mourne, Day is with Darkness Fled
- DOWLAND - Sorrow, Sorrow, Stay, lend True Repentant Tears
- CAGE - Five
- CAGE - Solo for Voice 91
- DOWLAND - Lady if You so Spight Me
- CAGE - Eight Whiskus
- CAGE - Dream
- DOWLAND - I Saw My Lady Weepe
- DOWLAND - Flow, My Tears, Fall From Your Springs
- DOWLAND - A Dream
- CAGE - She Is Asleep
- CAGE - A Room
- DOWLAND - Tymes Eldest Sonne, Old Age, The Heire of Ease: First Part
- DOWLAND - Then Sit thee downe and say thy Nunc demittis: Second Part
- DOWLAND - When Others Sings Venite exultemus: Third part
- STING & DOMINIC MILLER - Shape of My Heart
Cage and Dowland: the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for sober expression, concise forms and intimate realisation – and for the pleasure that comes from words as such. Each cultivates this desire in his own way: Cage undertakes, like a tightrope walker, to approach the essence of musical thought with humour, lightness and depth; Dowland aims for the expression of feelings in their purest form.
Cultivating as always a fertile anachronism, Thélème brings together in ‘all we get is life’ the complete works for two voices and lute by Dowland and several compositions by Cage. And world-renowned artist Sting offers a reworking of his hit song, ‘Shape of My Heart’, which in this new arrangement becomes a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle on an album where Renaissance and present meet, mingle and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.