Lighten Mine Eies - Près de votre oreille

He fell on the battlefield, but his revolutionary music lives on: the baroque bombs of William Lawes 1645 was a disastrous year for English music, because William Lawes fell during the siege of Chester: a loyal servant of Charles I and one of the most inventive composers of his time. His music is full of flashes of genius – the ‘harp consorts’ for example, in which his avant-garde ideas shatter all genre conventions. Près de votre oreille pairs them with his at least equally stunning three-part psalm settings. Brace yourself for this musical experience that hits you like shrapnel in the heart.