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Central United Reformed Church
7 Argyle Street
Bathwick
Bath
Somerset
BA2 4BA
England
Programme
George Handford – Now each creature
Anonymous – O Lord, whose grace
Thomas Morley – Who is it that this dark night
John Dowland – O sweet woods
John Dowland – Can she excuse my wrongs
John Coperario – O sweet flower
Anonymous – O dear life
John Danyel – Rosamund
John Danyel – Time, cruel time
Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr. – So beauty on the water stood
John Coperario – Fortune and glory
John Coperario – Tis now dead night
Robert Johnson – Care-charming sleep
John Danyel – Like as the lute delights
Performers
Sophia Brumfitt – mezzo-soprano
Din Ghani – lute
Musicke in the Ayre
Programme Note
Two brothers, born in Somerset during the reign of Elizabeth I, rose to prominence in the Jacobean court. Samuel Daniel, baptised in Taunton was a highly respected poet patronized by the powerful, and authored several masques for the Court. His younger brother John Danyel (baptised in Wellow) became one of the King's lutenists, and published one of the most highly regarded book of lute songs of the period - this included settings of some of his brother's poetry. This programme complements examples of the work of the siblings with songs involving some of the key figures of the period that they became associated with, such as Mary Herbert, her brother Philip Sidney, Robert Devereux the Earl of Essex, his notorious sister Penelope, her partner Charles Blount the Earl of Devonshire, the Queen consort Anne of Denmark, and her tragic son Henry; and of course other composers such as John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Alfonso Ferrabosco II, Robert Johnson, and the relatively unknown George Handford.
