Sting plays Dowland - songs from the labyrinth @ waslauft

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[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.

[Tullius]

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

[thingamajig89]

I deeply respect lute players!

[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.

[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 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!"

[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.

[epn10]

agreed!

[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.