Hathor Consort dir. Romina Lischka

In 1604, the English composer John Dowland published his collection Lachrimae. Its first seven pieces, inspired by the theme of ‘tears’, all start with the same motif. Benjamin Britten loved Dowland’s music very much, and it was the direct inspiration for his own Lachrymae in 1951. 

Annelies Van Parys also has taken inspiration from Dowland, and has written Six Interludes especially for the Hathor Consort (five violas da gamba and lute). They are reflections on Lachrimae, or Seven Tears and they also are interwoven into a single organic whole. Let Dowland and Van Parys move you as they shed some surprising new light on each other’s sonic worlds.