John Dowland: Tarleton’s Resurrection; David Tayler, archlute

One of Dowland’s early works, Tarleton’s Resurrection, performed on the archlute by David Tayler. Tarleton’s Reconstruction: Dowland’s original music does not survive, and the later sources present only the outside lines of what would have been a four or five part composition. Dowland’s lute solos invariably have room in the polyphonic web for a tenor or alto part, and here I have created a tenor part for the last section in the style of Dowland, using an inverted counterpoint of the melody divided alon