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St Andrew's Church
Church Street
Yetminster
Dorset
DT9 6HL
England

Sunday 8th October 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Barbara Strozzi – Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op.2: 'L'eraclito amoroso'
Barbara Strozzi – Arie, Op.8: 'Che si puo fare'
Claudio Monteverdi – Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti, SV 251
Francesca Caccini – Lasciatemi qui solo

Performers

Hannah Ely – soprano
Lucinda Cox – soprano
Toby Carr – theorbo
Aileen Henry – Harp

Fieri Consort

Programme Note

Sopranos Hannah Ely and Lucinda Cox with instrumentalists Aileen Henry and Toby Carr present a concert of intricate, heart-wrenching music, which centres on the life and work of Barbara Strozzi. 

Barbara Strozzi lived a life of high musical achievement and scandal in the Venice of the seventeenth century. A prolific and successful published composer in her own time, she was also said to have acted as courtesan at musical and intellectual meetings where “clothes were optional”. This concert of solos, duets, and instrumental works composed by Strozzi and her contemporaries, including Monteverdi and Caccini, will explore her reception and whether the scandal surrounding her was justified.