How fascinating! I love Dowland, and have a number of 'traditional'recordings of his music by the likes of Paul O'Dette (a few years ago I saw him at Harvard with Ellen Hargis--an unbelievably pure voice!--and David Douglass; it was astonishing, and the arch-lute *IS* a crazy-looking instrument, all right!); this should be really interesting to hear how Sting interprets it. Personally, I've never been a big fan, but his willingness to branch out this way is admirable; I'll definitely give it a listen! ~D
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