John Dowland - A Fancy P6

A Fancy P6 by John Dowland for solo lute recorded in Duvbo Church, Sweden, March 2021, for BIS Records. Producer/sound engineer Matthias Spitzbarth. Video edited by Liam Byrne. This is part of the album LESSONS featuring solo music by John Dowland, to be released on BIS Records May 6 2022. In English Renaissance collections of music, the term ‘lessons’ is often used to describe instrumental pieces, even though they aren’t pedagogical exercises as such. But as Jonas Nordberg writes in an introduction to his new disc ‘there remains much in them to be studied’. John Dowland is one of the composers whose music was a driving force of the Early Music revival already at the beginning of the 20th century. He has also played a central role in the rediscovery of the lute itself, an ongoing process which began more than a hundred years ago. Like many other musicians, Jonas Nordberg is continuously exploring the intimate relationship between a score and the instrument it was written for: ‘The pieces