The Cult of Melancholy
Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Catherine Liddell, lute;
Justin Godoy & Heloise Degrugillier, recorder;
When English Renaissance artists wrote about the "ghastly fumes of melancholy," they weren't complaining about high gas prices, but rather the depressing state of sadness that covered much of England in the 16th century. Ironically, this sadness inspired some of the most beautiful music ever composed by England's prince of melancholy, John Dowland.