Sting plays Dowland - songs from the labyrinth @ waslauft

[thingamajig89]

I deeply respect lute players! 

[LazlosPlane]

Great stuff by Sting. His voice IS subtly well-suited to these songs.

However, he should stick to singing and not talking as his knowledge of music history is embarrasingly lacking. John Dunstable was an even bigger superstar than Dowland in his time, and about 200 years before Dowland. Yikes.

[logansaan]

epn10 and direngrey2143....you guys are pretentious dicks....when you can do better put your money where your mouths are....hopefully it's better than where they've been to this point.....dicks : )

[Margritli]

War im Konzert in Basel. war supper. Das Sting immer mal wieder andere Musik Richtungen versucht finde ich gut. Bin nächsten Donnerstag in der Durham Cathedrale wo Sting ein Privat-Konzert gibt welches dann auf seine DVD kommt

mal schauen wie sein neuer Musik-Stil sein wird.

[Tullius]

I do admire Sting's sincere modesty. And, of course, I do like almost everything he sings!

[violatione]

@Tullius Musician modesty is not sincere. "Modest" people sell more records. I'm almost sure that he wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says yeah "I'm Sting bitch bow before me!"

[Tullius]

Sorry, but there is nothing I say about that. I do not know the singer Sting personally. My judgement about his modesty is thoroughly based upon what he sings and how he does it, what he says and his public behaviour. I repeat: I do admire him as human being and as an artist. That is not forbidden, is it?

[violatione]

@Tullius It's not forbidden at all. But you must understand that celebrity personalities are handcrafted by publicists to make as much money as possible. A celebrity's public persona almost never is the same as who they actually are.

[HolyMotherofGrid]

Ok, this is just TOOOOOO bizzare!! Reminds me of the time he sang with the mighty Pav.......

[mileyworldrocks247]

what part of labrinth was this

[bronxer78]

Very impressive! The lute-player's assessment is correct; Sting does have the right voice for these madrigals.

[davidfinkledrums]

Way to go Sting! I think it kicks ass! Why not give a new approach...it's what Dowland did...

[cacho29mx]

YUp pretty much, sounds very good ...

[snuffbox1]

I think he's done an interesting interpretation of Dowland, who in fact was of Irish descent. Hence the need to curry favour with the protestant establishment of his time.

[Bulitproof1]

Was that curry flavor or Carry Favour?? There is a difference. :-))

[mairanya1]

It was curry favour, so neither of your suggestions.

[SuLeila]

Good example of what I like best about Sting. Openminded, always trying out something new, merging and blending styles and interpretations. He is never boring and I actually do like his husky, lazy voice a lot. He's very special. He opens doors for his audience. Just be openminded, too, listen and enjoy.

[baldwinse]

Jetzt isser endgültig irre geworden...was ein gejammer hahahaha sorry, ich bin echt ein totaler Fan von Sting, aber das ist einfach nur beknackt XD

[aymarajilatanaka]

what a shit !!! what a shit voice!!! that voice is just kaka ... he should learn how to sing Dowland ... how it was posible??...

[inzyboy777]

Don't be meanthat is not nice, be fair. He is not a trained early music interpreter. Its nice to see someone outside our field taking interest in what we do.

[tararep]

It's not what is authentic but as he said, he's not trying to be anything but himself...and in interviews he's very humble about the talent and skill of authentic early music singers. He did his research about Dowland...he's not like Brightman who throws opera songs she can't sing into pop albums at random.

[epn10]

He's actually handling the Renaissance style of singing very well - absolutely no vibrato, white, clear tones, reserved dynamics, etc.  His "husky" timbre reminds me of John Potter's.

The fact that he can play archlute simultaneously is pretty awesome.

[epn10]

(Very, VERY vaguely of John Potter's...)

[direngrey2143]

HAHAH if at all like john potter.

oh poor sting, i respect him for branching out, and this CD was instrumentally divine, but he should keep away from the renaissance period and stick with the police.

[epn10]

agreed!

[moncor3]

it's not really german at all...weird

it would be right if it were "Was läuft"

which means:

"What's on (tv/radiowhatever)?" because a show on tv "runs" (=laufen) "Es läuft im Radio"

Of course, since this show is from switzerland, it could be a dialect-thing without the Umlauf ä.

[zorksloss]

I'm still very new to German. Dose of that show mean "What's up" or "What air"?

[crisalvini]

Thank so much!!!! I loved the Labyrinth Tour... :))