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Special offer. All We Get is Life
Jean-Christophe Groffe, Ziv Braha, thélème, Leonardo Borlotto, Alexandra Polin, Liz Rumsey, Ryosuke Sakamoto, Nikki Buzzi, Sting
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
their imaginative and perceptive new album, All we get is life, explores the works’ shared sense of intimacy and contained emotional expression. The results are enjoyably surprising and, while...
Special offer. All We Get is Life
Jean-Christophe Groffe, Ziv Braha, thélème, Leonardo Borlotto, Alexandra Polin, Liz Rumsey, Ryosuke Sakamoto, Nikki Buzzi, Sting
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
their imaginative and perceptive new album, All we get is life, explores the works’ shared sense of intimacy and contained emotional expression. The results are enjoyably surprising and, while...
About
Cage and Dowland: the two Johns, four hundred years apart, share a common taste for soberexpression, concise forms and intimate realisation - and for the pleasure that comes from words assuch.
Each cultivates this desire in his own way: Cageundertakes, 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 alongside superstar Sting, he offers a reworking of ‘Shape of My Heart’, a kind of 21st-century lute song, coming full circle in an album where Renaissance and present meet, enter into dialogue, mingle and merge to transcend the boundaries of aesthetics and genres.
Contents and tracklist
- Jean-Christophe Groffe, Ziv Braha
- thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe
- thélème, Leonardo Borlotto, Alexandra Polin, Liz Rumsey, Ryosuke Sakamoto
- Jean-Christophe Groffe, Nikki Buzzi
- thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe
- thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe, Nikki Buzzi
- thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe
- Jean-Christophe Groffe, Ziv Braha
- thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2024
February 2025
their imaginative and perceptive new album, All we get is life, explores the works’ shared sense of intimacy and contained emotional expression. The results are enjoyably surprising and, while not entirely consistent, very often delightful.
December 2024
You might think Dowland, Cage and Sting strange bedfellows but a common thread of intimacy and concise expression in performance unifies this gentle yet sensational album.
