Lachrimae Pavan (John Dowland)

[woodchuckmool]

beautiful. thank you!

[blackdogxx]

Wow... I didn't expect this guy with a Taylor to do this. This is a terrific job on a Downald favorite in the classical repertoire. This guy is covered in musicality and is an excellent player if he is not a pro. I'd make time to see him perform if he were in my town.

[CiscoNast]

very british

[chengyanslc]

Although hard this is a nice piece that can afford to be played slowly. How nice for a beginner like me.

[Bacteriod]

How is it that the music started before you started playing?

[kbaronshaffer]

gorgeous! i think i'm going to start studying this piece myself...if so, i'll be referencing this video quite a bit!

[troubleclef]

@kbaronshaffer

thanks a bunch!

[beedeetripo]

A beautyfull guitar in the hand of an excellent player!! I really like your relaxed approach to the piece, very nice dynamics! congrats 5*****, greetings and respect from Bram D., Holland

[marina300]

Tnx! :)

[Tomas9308]

hey, it was really nice however i've noticed some background noise in some of your videos while in others not.... i hope i made some constructive criticism altough i'm sure you had already noticed.... this one would've been better w/out the background noise if you ask me... still awsome

[troubleclef]

not sure if it's background noise or weird compression noise that's being introduced after posting to youtube. i'm doing what i can to isolate/eliminate it. but it's definitely an issue. thanks.

[laine612]

Be Still My Heart !!!

[troubleclef]

are you fibrilating?

[jwkish]

so you have sense of humour, too ? ;-)

[jacquillo]

softly as a morning sunrise

[troubleclef]

:D Sure, e-minor is what the transcription i learned was written in after all and most guitarists do just play this in e minor (i think)

[guweck]

I´ve always been a Segovia fan. Of course there are many other great masters but I didn´t feel the magic I´ve found in Segovia´s interpretations, until I listened to this video. Please let me tell you that you´ve got the magic I was looking for. You made me enjoy a marvelous music. Your flawless interpretation has a good taste and it´s a pleasure to listen to it. Just thank you very much and congratulations.

Would it be possible for me to know what guitar you are playing?

[troubleclef]

Thank you. But you do me too much credit. There's about a million skill levels between me and the masters (let alone *The Master*)

I'm very glad you liked it. And thanks for all the other comments too.

check video details for all guit info.

[yourforte]

This is a beautiful performance of a beautiful piece.

[glaoud]

Very beautiful version , with a good tempo and beautiful sound of guitar ! Cheers .

Greetings from France. ***** J.C.

[troubleclef]

thanks Jean-Claude!

[pistolpump]

I never thought I would find a YouTube music video that I would enjoy as much as your Led Zep "The Rain Song" video...that video left me in awe of your talent....But my friend,after hearing this video,I am convinced that your "Lachrimae Pavan" deserves a spot beside it on my all time favorites playlist.....I Really Enjoy Your Effort Here On YouTube.... THANK YOU

[troubleclef]

thanks a bunch. cheers.

[noazarkle]

Great.Dowland at his melancholy best.I hope that you can manage to post "Semper Dowland Semper Dolens"sometime-on the Martin perhaps.(I recently read that even Barrios used steel basses on his instruments,so why not?)

[troubleclef]

dowland on steel strings. I like the idea. thanks for checking out the video.

[crazykaraoke]

Outstanding!!! If I was a manager or producer I'd sign you up today!! Wonderful!

[jwright123456789]

Fantastic - 5 stars for sure. Actually these slower pieces are hard to play!

[chudnovsky]

beautiful piece wow :)))

Cheers,

Alex

[troubleclef]

thanks, Alex.

[ganGaZION]

wow very nice

[marqueskdu]

Wonderful interpretation. I tried others on YOU TUBE and this is the best.

Excellent technique and great sensitivity.

Thanks again.

[troubleclef]

I thank you.

[torisand]

Yor guitar sings with the most beautiful voice!!*****

[654321654321]

great, beautiful interpretation. i like the way you play this piece.

about the key, i suspect (i´m not an expert!) that some lutenists play it in "G minor" but with A=400Hz (as it was used in early music) wich is equivalent to "Fsharp minor" with A=440Hz.

[troubleclef]

yeah, somebody else pointed that out too. I think that is the correct answer. thanks

[paul8815]

buena cancion amigo

5 estrellas para ti

buen video

[davidsl222]

beautifully played.

[troubleclef]

thank you

[jordan427]

This is the best version of Lachrimae Pavan on Youtube. There's certainly some other excellent ones but this one is at the top for sure. Thanks!

[troubleclef]

I appreciate that. thanks so much. cheers.

[jaynae25]

Oh my God I am soo excited that you played this!!! This was a solo piece that I sang in college. English title "Flow My Tears". I sang it slightly faster because of the long held out notes. I was my absoulute favorite piece to sing.

[jaynae25]

Flow my tears fall from your springs, exiled forever 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 sad fortunes deplore, light doth but shame disclose.

[troubleclef]

thanks. glad you liked it. i'll check out the song version (which i'm sure i've heard but don't quite recall). cheers.

[riskas513]

Thanks Tony for one more wonderful interpretation. Cheers

[troubleclef]

thanks so much for dropping by.

[awol2602]

yet another wonderful choice

[Lucasguitarrita]

Great job, sir, so polite for sharing it with all of us.

The piece was written for the G lute, but it was supposed to be tuned with A=415 Hz, and not with modern pitch (A=440 Hz). This is the difference between G and F#. So both are OK. (I hope my short English will be understood)

Thanks again for your work.

[troubleclef]

very interesting. thanks for the info. cheers.

[ggaylmer]

beautiful...will download this to practice the piece!

[AndanteLargo]

Hi Tony,

How could I miss this one!? It's beautiful!! As you may know, I love Dowlands music and this piece has a special role in my life... The original key is g-minor. Plyed in e-minoe with a capo in III is the most correct way. BTW: Dowland was working for Danish King Christian IV in Helsinore and I can see the castle Kronborg (where Hamlet according to Shakesspeare lived) where Dowland played for the court from my bedroom window. :-)

Beautiful playing!! 5 stars!

Per-Olov

[troubleclef]

That's crazy cool. You should record a clip of some Dowland in the castle or castle environs.

I was going to go with the capo on 3 because of Bream's recording. Then I heard Nigel North playing it in F#minor so I stuck with that.

thanks for watching

[chanman411]

haunting. mesmerizing. I love this one.

[hyperboreal]

Congratulations on your first Dowland, Tony. This has to be the most ancient piece of your YT repertoire, if I'm not wrong. We, 21st century music listeners, are definitely so lucky to have had the access to such a huge, splendid and diverse inventory of music gathered over the centuries (from Dowland to Beatles and beyond). And as they used to say: "Ars longa, vita brevis". Excellent job.

[troubleclef]

I posted a reply yesterday and it never showed up.

Thanks! At first I thought your comment said 'congratulations on your first download'. I couldn't figure out what it meant. hahaha.

Not sure it's the most ancient. Some of those folk melodies are REAL old.

[Liranm89]

Well done! I love your interpretation, and I must say the capo in the 2nd fret is a good choice, I think the original is on the 3rd but i'm not sure. I tried both and I think on the 2nd it's better. This piece has much meaning to me, Thanks a lot!

Take care,

Liran

[troubleclef]

thanks, Liran. I think the capo makes the guitar sound a little more lute-like, too.  cheers.

[Liranm89]

Yep that's true

[jimmymac30]

5 stars, of course

[lunalunanueva]

Nice.

[troubleclef]

thanks!

[pontepolentepontepi]

Excellent !!!

[ShogaNinja]

Yours is much nicer than mine. Your playing as well.

The lute info was more for the crowd than you but whatever. Hats off to you.

I am focusing on J.S.Bach and Robert De Visee personally.

[troubleclef]

are you a lute player? you should post.  not enough lute on the tube

[ShogaNinja]

I am not but I am studying baroque era and as I understand it,it was all written on lute to begin with in that period.I am new to the world of classical mind you,but I have a 20 year metal background and I am crossing over. I recently did a search and learned how to read lute music since tab reads like notation to me. I have yet to pick my guitar tho because they all have bad G strings at Guitar Center.

About lute: check out screenname "Luthval" you should subscribe,he's a madman on the lute.

[troubleclef]

oh, i'm already subscribed to that guy. thanks

[PB11784]

In your notes you ask "...so who knows?" Obviously YOU do. Another brilliant song with brilliant interpretation. Thank you.

[troubleclef]

nah, i don't know. i've never seen or attempted to decipher the lute tablature, so i really don't know if it's f#m or gm.

thanks for watching.

someone will know.

[troubleclef]

May be so.  Dowland rearranged instrumental things as songs all the time. Not sure about this one. Someone will answer, though.

[troubleclef]

It's not a "protect-the-finish" thing so much. It's just so i don't stick on a muggy afternoon. Hard to imagine I'll be turning the heat on in a few weeks. thanks!

[chamacojesus]

Oh my... what a sound, Tony! And 5:16 and no mistakes? You are my hero, my friend.

[troubleclef]

:D. Well, I almost kicked over the foot stool at one point which is pretty audible! Thanks for dropping by, buddy.

[ShogaNinja]

You rock!

If you capo a guitar on the second fret and tune down the g to F# I believe you get the lute tuning.You can do a google search to learn more about it but lute music is actually the same as tablature but with letters instead of numbers.A is Open,B is 1st fret,C is 2nd,D is 3rd,and so on. The timing is notationed the same way, but without dots or flags.Without the flags, the timing is often aligned in a grid.

What model of Taylor is that? I didn't know Taylor even made classical guitars.

[troubleclef]

thanks. Yes, i know about the g to f# thing. it's often recommended in guitar books of renaissance music. thanks for the other info, too.

Yes, Taylor has a nylon string line that's probably not all that well known. this is an NS54ce. they don't make that one anymore but there are 64's and 74's which are even nicer as i recall. cheers.

[SOURDIES3L]

I am a fan of yours.I play guitar and one day would like to play somewhat close to your lvl. Anyway how long have you been playing and how often do you play?

very nice

[troubleclef]

thanks. I've been playing off and on for 34 years now. I don't play a huge amount. couples hours a day at best. cheers.

[terrierbw1]

Outstanding ..*****... The sound is very clear to me. Thanks for posting.

[troubleclef]

Experimenting with a different setup. Recording in Audacity and then importing it into WMM. It definitely sounds better on this end too. thanks

[BellJosie]

Very pleasant. It has rained here off & on,so the sound blended with the view. jax

[troubleclef]

we just got over the remnants of a very wet hurricane that nicked us this weekend, too.