Details
Canongate Kirk
153 Canongate
Edinburgh
EH8 8BN
Scotland
Programme
Orlando Gibbons – What is our life!
William Byrd – Mass for 4 Voices
Thomas Morley – It was a lover and his lass (As you like it: Act V Scene 3)
William Byrd – Come, woeful Orpheus
Nathaniel Giles – Tibi soli peccavi
Robert Johnson – Full Fathom Five (The Tempest: Act I Scene 2)
Orlando Gibbons – Lift up your heads
~ Interval ~
Antonio Bicci – Candide perle
William Byrd – Reges Tharsis
William Byrd – Why Do I Use My Paper Ink and Pen?
Robert Jones – Farewell, dear heart
Ralph Vaughan Williams – O mistress mine
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Over hill, over dale
Orlande de Lassus – Un jour vis
Thomas Morley – Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Performers
Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers
Programme Note
The Edinburgh University Renaissance singers mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with a programme of music inspired by his plays, interspersed with pieces which would have been performed during his lifetime.