John Potter - Amores Pasados
Label: ECM Catalog: 4811555 Format: CD 1. In Nomine - Picforth 2. Oh fair enough are sky and plain, for voice & piano - E.J. Moeran 3. In Nomine - Picforth 4. Oft Have I Sigh'd for Him That Heares Me Not for voice, lute & bass viol - Thomas Campion 5. Sleep, for voice & piano - Peter Warlock 6. Amores Pasados, for voice, harp, chitarrone, guitar, lirone, viola da gamba & percussion - John Paul Jones Potter – an ECM veteran from his decades as a tenor with the Hilliard Ensemble and, more recently, with his Dowland Project recordings – arranged the songs of Amores Pasados with lutenists Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman. Adding her pure voice and hardanger fiddle to the session at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio was Anna Maria Friman of ‘Trio Mediaeval’ (the vocal group that Potter has mentored, supervising its ECM recordings). Reflecting on the material of Amores Pasados, Potter writes: “We asked John Paul Jones, Tony Banks and Sting to write us lute songs. Asking a rock-music composer to set existing poetry within a genre we knew well meant that we singers wouldn’t need to pretend to be pop singers – we were still ‘interpreting’ a text in a way that we’re familiar with… Price: $16.98 |