A Greenwich Song Sandwich, with Musicke in the Ayre: Jacobean/Caroline songs to lute and baroque guitar at St Alfege Church, London on Saturday 5th March 2022

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A Greenwich Song Sandwich, with Musicke in the Ayre

Jacobean/Caroline songs to lute and baroque guitar

Add to my Calendar 05-03-2022 13:05 05-03-2022 15:05 36 A Greenwich Song Sandwich, with Musicke in the Ayre We return to St Alfege with a lunchtime recital with a strong local flavour. Alysha Paterson will be accompanied by Din Ghani on lute and baroque guitar in a programme of songs from the reigns of James I and Charles I, bookended with works by two Greenwich-based Royal musicians. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger was buried at St Alfege in 1628; while Nicholas Lanier (the first-ever Master of the King’s Music) was baptised there in 1568. The sandwich filling gives a flavour of how musical tastes evolved from the end of the Elizabethan age to the Restoration six decades later. The lute songs of John Dowland, Thomas Campion (and Ferrabosco) contrast with theatre songs by Robert Johnson, followed by the continuo songs of the Lawes brothers and of Lanier himself. Over this period composers gave up writing song accompaniments specifically for the lute, leaving the choice of instrument open to the performers: although the lute remained the preferred option for some time the newly emerging “Spanish” guitar was another option. St Alfege Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Alfege Church
3 Greenwich Church Street
Greenwich
London
SE10 9BJ
England

Saturday 5th March 2022
1:05 PM

Programme

Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr. – So beauty on the water stood
Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr. – So, so, leave off
John Dowland – Now, O Now, I Needs Must part
John Dowland – Tell me, true love
John Coperario – Deceitful fancy
John Coperario – So parted you
Thomas Campion – Author of light
Thomas Campion – Oft have I sighed
Robert Johnson – Have you seen but a white lily grow
Robert Johnson – Care-charming sleep
John Wilson – Take, o take these lips away
Nicholas Lanier – Though I am young
Henry Lawes – Amidst the myrtles
Nicholas Lanier – No more shall meads

Performers

Alysha Paterson – soprano
Din Ghani – lute

Musicke in the Ayre

Programme Note

We return to St Alfege with a lunchtime recital with a strong local flavour. Alysha Paterson will be accompanied by Din Ghani on lute and baroque guitar in a programme of songs from the reigns of James I and Charles I, bookended with works by two Greenwich-based Royal musicians. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger was buried at St Alfege in 1628; while Nicholas Lanier (the first-ever Master of the King’s Music) was baptised there in 1568. The sandwich filling gives a flavour of how musical tastes evolved from the end of the Elizabethan age to the Restoration six decades later. The lute songs of John Dowland, Thomas Campion (and Ferrabosco) contrast with theatre songs by Robert Johnson, followed by the continuo songs of the Lawes brothers and of Lanier himself. Over this period composers gave up writing song accompaniments specifically for the lute, leaving the choice of instrument open to the performers: although the lute remained the preferred option for some time the newly emerging “Spanish” guitar was another option.

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