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Holy Cross Church
High Street
Ramsbury
Marlborough
SN8 2QH
England
Tickets
Prices: £12
Book Tickets
Programme
John Dowland – Disdain me still
John Dowland – Adew
John Coperario – While dancing rests
John Coperario – So parted you
John Coperario – O sweet flower
John Danyel – Rosamund
John Dowland – Robin
John Dowland – Semper Dowland semper dolens
John Dowland – Shepherd in a Shade
John Dowland – Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
~ Interval ~
Nicholas Lanier – No more shall meads
Nicholas Lanier – Like hermit poor
Nicholas Lanier – Though I am young
Henry Purcell – Pausanius, Z.585: 'Sweeter than Roses'
Henry Purcell – If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379
Henry Purcell – Lost is my quiet, Z.502
Henry Purcell – I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly in Vain, Z.630/17c
Henry Purcell – The Indian Queen: 'We the spirits of the air'
Performers
Alysha Paterson – Soprano
Alice Simmons – mezzo-soprano
Din Ghani – lute / baroque guitar
Programme Note
Alysha Paterson and Alice Simmons present some vocal gems of the Stuart era, from the delights of Dowland to the pleasures of Purcell. with Din Ghani on lutes and baroque guitar.
Four hundred years ago, the death of John Dowland marked the beginning of the end of the lute’s golden age in England. For much of the 16th and early 17th centuries, the lute was central to English musical life, accompanying singers and instrumentalists. By the time of Henry Purcell, however, it had become just one of many instruments used to accompany a voice.
This programme traces the changing styles of song across this period, beginning with Dowland and his contemporaries and the final flowering of the English lute-song tradition. Nicholas Lanier provides a bridge to the more dramatic Baroque style of Purcell, whose songs are also represented here. Together, they reveal how the intimate sound of voice and lute evolved over the course of a century.
Tickets available at the door, from the Post Office in Ramsbury, or online.
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