"Flow my tears" by John Dowland | Valeria Mignaco, soprano | Alfonso Marin, lute
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2007
- Valeria Mignaco, soprano | Alfonso Marin, lute
Recorded live at Sint-Pieterskerk / Leuven / Belgium
www.lutevoice.com
Another more recent version of this song: • Flow my tears by John ... - Hudba
It seems this was a unique performance that even her future self could not top. The best interpretation ever of this masterpiece.
Still the best version on CZcams, 15 years later.
these songs were written for Elizabethan's to sing for pleasure at home. In no way were they restricted to counter-tenors. This is a beautiful performance and I am showing it to my Renaissance music class. Thank you.
This video comforted me immensely during the loss of a child
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my best wishes to you!
It still does to me, Cata.... I also lost a daughter, so I fully understand you....
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I come here every year or so to be devastated by and to relish these extraordinary performances; unmatched in my opinion. I feel so lucky to have found them, and to have been alive to hear them.
I love how expressive Ms Mignaco is while seated
This is absolutely extraordinary and both musicians are fantastic! Anyone of you out there writing in comments/critiques such as "they didn't sing like that", etc. don't know that much about music and shouldn't waste your time or energy. Part of what makes music so incredible is that it is a subjective art form and when performed, is ultimately interpreted and reinterpreted. That's what makes it so special and unique! This video is incredibly special and unique!
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This music leaps into life across more than four hundred years, thanks to these performers. Of course, it took a Dowland to compose it - but it would remain lost in historical archives if it wasn't re-created like this, for us today.
The lute, incapable of loud music, was the perfect accompaniment for solo or small secular choral music in intimate settings like a parlour setting, a party. It was not compatable with large venues like opera or symphonies but flourished in the age before "concerts". It was polular at court and picnics even. The close synergy of these two performers is not only a remarkable achievement but emphasises the true recreation of the way this music was originally sung and played, a truly time-travelled exactness (in me humble ...) of the music of John Dowland - the first two decades of the 1600s - the ending of the age of Elizabeth I, the Virgin queen/(Virginia's namesake) and of the beginning of James the First (Jamestown namesake) - the age of the much loved William Shakespear.
Well there's a reason the Theorbo was invented.
This is not meant for two performers. It's meant for at least three, the lutenist, the cantus, the bassus. Some other songs have more than that, polyphonic songs, these. Well, it's how they were originally sung.
For example, check
www.classicalarchives.com/album/3760014193262.html
and scroll to "Flow my tears."
I am sorry to tell you this but you are the typical Know-it-All that only criticises without really having a clue about what you are talking about. Have you even care to have a look the facsimile?
alf tamu Less bullshit, more information, please.
Thank you for your words David Iarussi ...This is precisely why i simply love Baroque music...Its purity...its incapability of loudness...
She does one of the best interpretation I've ever heard of the music.
The way she controls her voice is incredible, especially in those quiet passages, like an angel :O :)
This is music! And the sound of the lute is so pure. Thanks!
Pour moi c'est la plus belle et la meilleure version. Bravo à la chanteuse qui a une voix magnifique et qui chante avec toutes ses " tripes ". Sublime !
Je suis bien près de partager votre avis mais je n'oublie pas la version que l'immortel Alfred Deller nous en avait donné. Souvenir toujours vivant. Ceci dit, Valeria Mignaco m'enchante
So beautiful. I watch this repeatedly, every few months maybe and never tire of it. One of Dowland's finest and the finest performance of it I have ever seen. Thank you both for such a rendition!
I listen to this about 5 times a day, absolutely stunningly performed. 5 stars.
2021 Still listening to this amazing performance❤️
All these Valeria & Alfonso videos are a real treat, & their performance of this haunting song is particularly beautiful.
Una canción tan emblemática del Renacimiento inglés, una obra tan bella como 'Flow, your tears' del magnífico compositor John Dowland, no pudo haber encontrado en la exquisita voz de la soprano Argentina-Holandesa Vanesa Mignaco y en el maravilloso laudista español, Alfonso Marin, mejores intérpretes.
Me han conmovido profundamente... les agradezco desde mi corazón. Y desde ya también al compositor. In Memoriam John Dowland.
Travelling through time is possible! This is the proof. Thank you for the journey.
the passion, emotion, the playing into, Dowland is very hard to play, you two have done a magnificent performance
Flow, my tears, fall from your springs!
Exiled for ever, let me mourn;
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.
Down vain lights, shine you no more!
No nights are dark enough for those
That in despair their last fortunes deplore.
Light doth but shame disclose.
Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pity is fled;
And tears and sighs and groans my weary days, my weary days
Of all joys have deprived.
From the highest spire of contentment
My fortune is thrown;
And fear and grief and pain for my deserts, for my deserts
Are my hopes, since hope is gone.
Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell,
Learn to contemn light
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite.
Damn songs were always this short.
Ala Alpha a
Thx
I thought this was in latin until 2 and a half minutes in when I looked at your comment.
@@RandomCommenter955 That's pretty funny. Would be interesting to hear it sung in Latin though.
Just stumbled upon this by chance one day, and it became my favourite version of this song, ever. The speed at which it is performed is perfect here. There's a newer version, which is slower - and it's worse for it. Play this too slow, and it becomes sleep-inducing. Play it too fast, and it feels hectic. This one right here hits the exact mark.
This is ART.
Have been a fan of this one for many years. The repeat of the last stanza is hauntingly beautiful.
Few songs and performances,
give this special moment of silence,
after the last tone has ebbed away.
This is one of them.
Thank You.
Unreal...........exquisite aural beauty............It astounds me how something so aged in the history of Western music could be so beautiful........
Moving. Dowland's time, so far away... But through this great performance suddenly close and alive.
Writes TWO HUNDRED pieces for lute
Media: "WHO?????????"
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+PopTartNeko came here for the same reason " 9gag" ;)
Necriptos
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Necriptos
you have some pathological problems mate, no offence.
the most beautiful interpreation of "flow my tears" that I've ever had a chance to hear
she is singing like a ship sinking in the evening full of feeling,
so deep, very soulful, it triggers lots of impressive images in mind
controlled af, once in a life time, she havent done any better than this and ill bet that she never will
This is just magnificent. Fantastic. These 46 people who did not like it, have no taste what so ever to music.
What an amazing voice and lute performance! Thank you for sharing such beautiful music.
The natural ebb and flow and beautiful singing is so touching! Thank you for this beautiful gift!
sincere,heartfelt..beautiful performance!very expression!!!
Lute with voice is really great! I feel transported to Renaissance Italy, but instead of black death there's Covid 19
This is so beautiful. Her voice is quite exquisite. Bravo.
I truly felt the era of the music in my soul.This was a rare joining of 2 souls. I say that because to bring the spirit of the song to life with the emotion they acomplished became a beautiful thing.
I love this song and the way you sing it. I got my little boy to sing this last year and he really liked it too.
CarlosMacMartin1 year ago
What?! Thumbs down?! This is amazing! 58 people were dropped on their heads when they were infants.
THAT'S VERY CORRECT CARLOS MC MARTIN!
JAN 30, 2015
Absolutely beautiful, love the voice and the lute.
!Viva, Valeria Mignaco!
This is a revelation. And a rebuke---Where the f*** have I been ? I eat this stuff up, can never get enough. I have to make more room in my life for the things that make life worth living, like this duo, bless them.
My year 8 class loved this video!
Thanks for sharing.
Lovely! Bravo to both performers
Maravilhoso trabalho, voz muito disciplinada, e acompanhamento equilibrado. Belíssimo!!!
Meravigliosa interpretazione , la migliore che si possa trovare , una grande grande cantante !
This is wonderful .. so moving to listen to, so evocative!
How beautiful and pure is Dowland music...
the repeat of the last stanza.......is the best thing......ever
Really beautiful music.
Lifting my spirit. Beautiful transcendental.
I can't say enough about this music it's just it's so uplifting.
una bellissima voce per un brano stupendo
What a lovely piece of music and a wonderful performance - great voice especially. Thank you, both of you.
ich liebe diese musik, auch die dezente laute passt genau
Absolutely perfect.
Thank you so much for a beautiful rendition.
john dowland´s music is just magic, and also your voice is so beautifull! I´m glad to hear this song by you.
Sublime interpretacion!! Me transporta en el tiempo!
This is one of the best I ever heard. Really
Magnifique. Une émotion de tout instant. My tears flow.
this is soothing and relaxing.
This is so enchanting and beautiful!
Beautiful!
Perfect in every detail.
This is one of my favorite songs right now.
This is really too good, i love it.
GRANDISSIMA INTERPRETAZIONE !!! FANTASTICI !!!
Bravissimi. Che voce!
Sublime performance!
I absolutely love this performance.
Heard lots of Dowland by lots of musicians. This is very nicely done!
BEAUTIFUL!
how beautiful!
"Escuchad, sombras, pueblo de tinieblas,
aprendez a despreciar la luz
Felices felices quienes en los infiernos
no sufren los ultrajes de este mundo"
me encanta esa parte
Bravissimi!!
The best Dowland!!!
beautiful...!! beautiful music, beautiful instrument, beautiful voice. and also a beautiful woman=) i love dowland!
so beautiful
happy happy and nice voice
bellisima interpretación los amo¡¡¡ saludos desde tlahuac mexico¡¡
Belleza de música. Bravo...!!!
beautiful, just gorgeous
Beatiful voice and really well played from the Lutenist. Bravissimi!!
So beautiful! You're both great.
Movingly expressive - a superb performance.
Great piece ! Beatiful voice & perfomance. Bravi to all 2 and thanks for posting ;-)
Orgullo argentino Valeria!!! Bellisima interpretación
Wow que bonita sorpresa que sea Argentina!! pensaba que era Italiana!
Oh wow. 😲 Beautiful.
absolutely beautiful voice; angelic; charming accompanyment on the lute; brilliant performance
!!!!!QUE MARAVILLA DE INTERPRETACION ,Y VOZ PRECIOSA UNA ARTISTA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my Gods this is glorious.
Thank you! How utterly beautiful, this performance. The pain and desolation of the woman Dowland had in mind is transported so life-like that I think every man in the world who hears it would feel the call to come and comfort her.
Sono rimasta incantata. Bravissimi. Raro poter ascoltare un'esecuzione tanto equilibrata ed espressiva, Comunica tutto senza eccedere. Davvero difficile. Che lavoro...
guarda "come again" di Dowlan cantata da lei. Bellissima
Gorgeous singing, well delivered.
Exactly. Brilliant performance. Thank you.
Fantástica!! cada vez que lo escucho me emociono!! felicitaciones!!!!
Excellent performance! Thanks for uploading.
excellent performance of my favorite Dowland song for voice & lute
I'm reading How to Stop Time by Matt Haig where the narrator plays this sing on his lute. Absolutely touched and devastated at how achingly sweet this sounds. This feeling from this rendition is the same I've been feeling while reading the book. Magnificent!!
I am here for the same reason :))
Very touching. Good inner rhythm. Thanks for this interpretation. Best w
Congratulations on reaching half a million views! Wow!
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@Angel Tanner Definitely, been using flixzone for since december myself :)
Brava! How can there be any thumbs down! Such haters! Boo to you naysayers!
omg .. this song makes my tear flowed