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Reviewer: Kate
Bolton-Porciatti In his debut solo album, Slovenian BorZulJan concentrates largely on Dowland's Fantasies - works whose complex counterpoint, exploratory freedom and expressive rhetoric embrace a range of emotions and affects. Zuljan’s eclectic background as a guitarist, oud player and lutenist, combined.with musical tastes that range from medieval to jazz, makes him highly responsive to the varied hues of Dowlands palette. He roams fron the darkly introspective opening Fantasia to the bright and breezy Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe, fromn the evanescent Dream and wandering stream-of-consciousness Fancies to the fleet, taught rhythms of the dance-inspired pieces. Throughout, he plays with the antitheses of “durezza, mollezza, asprezza, dolcezza” (harshness, softness, bitterness, sweetness) - the lutenist's rhetorical tools, according to Dowland’s contemporary Vincenzo Galilei.
Zuljan plays an eight-course
'tenor' lute from which he draws a range of colours and timbres - here limpid,
there muted; he even seems to turn the lute into an exotic sounding Arabic oud
at times. Set in an open and airy acoustic, the close-placed microphones pick
out the exquisite ornaments and subtly nuanced details - and also the finger
movements on the fretboard, thouh they are not overly intrusive. | ||||
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