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Mark Padmore & Elizabeth Kenny: Sonnets in Song

Early Evening

Part of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2022

Add to my Calendar 17-10-2022 17:15 17-10-2022 19:15 36 Mark Padmore & Elizabeth Kenny: Sonnets in Song We are delighted to welcome Mark Padmore as our Artist in Residence this year. For this very special first event of his residency, he is joined by world-renowned lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. They focus on Elizabethan songwriters who were attracted to the expressive possibilities of the sonnet form, with songs by Danyel, Morley and Dowland, as well as settings of Shakespeare freshly set to pre-existing tunes from the lute-song repertory by scholar and author Ross W. Duffin. Somerville College, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

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Somerville College
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6HD
England

Programme

Thomas Morley – Who is it that this dark night
John Dowland – O sweet woods

Performers

Mark Padmore – tenor
 Eliizabeth Kenny – lute

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Programme Note

We are delighted to welcome Mark Padmore as our Artist in Residence this year. For this very special first event of his residency, he is joined by world-renowned lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. They focus on Elizabethan songwriters who were attracted to the expressive possibilities of the sonnet form, with songs by Danyel, Morley and Dowland, as well as settings of Shakespeare freshly set to pre-existing tunes from the lute-song repertory by scholar and author Ross W. Duffin.

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