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Helen Charlston & Toby Carr: Battle Cry

Part of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2022

Add to my Calendar 14-10-2022 17:00 14-10-2022 19:00 36 Helen Charlston & Toby Carr: Battle Cry For the first of our lute-song recitals, Helen Charlston, a BBC New Generation Artist, and Toby Carr present Battle Cry, a programme they recently recorded to great acclaim. Their repertoire rebalances the 17th-century obsession with female abandonment and lament, incorporating works by Purcell, Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi and their contemporaries, as well as a specially commissioned work by Owain Park. You may wish to view this event in conjunction with the pre-concert talk given by Jeremy Summerly. For more information please visit https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/1436 Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sheldonian Theatre
Broad Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3AZ
England

Programme

Henry Purcell – Bonduca, Z.574: 'O, lead me to some peaceful gloom'
Barbara Strozzi – L'Eraclito Amoroso
Robert de Visée – Prelude in A
Owain Park – Battle Cry
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas: 'Ah! Belinda, when I am laid in earth'
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Preludio Quinto
Barbara Strozzi – La Travagliata
Claudio Monteverdi – Lamento d'Arianna, SV 22: 'Lasciatemi morire'
Robert de Visée – Prelude, Allemande, Sarabande and Chaconne (from the Saizenay Manuscript, 1699)
Henry Purcell – Evening Hymn, Z.193

Performers

Helen Charlston – mezzo-soprano
 Toby Carr – theorbo

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Programme Note

For the first of our lute-song recitals, Helen Charlston, a BBC New Generation Artist, and Toby Carr present Battle Cry, a programme they recently recorded to great acclaim. Their repertoire rebalances the 17th-century obsession with female abandonment and lament, incorporating works by Purcell, Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi and their contemporaries, as well as a specially commissioned work by Owain Park.

You may wish to view this event in conjunction with the pre-concert talk given by Jeremy Summerly. For more information please visit https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/1436

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