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Details
St James' Church
Prebend Street
Islington
London
N1 8PH
England
Programme
Luca Marenzio – Potrò viver io più se senza luce
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Io son ferito, ahi lasso
Maddalena Casulana Casulana – Morir non può
Carlo Gesualdo – Asciugate i begli occhi
Claudio Monteverdi – Si ch'io Vorrei Morire
Jacques Arcadelt – Il bianco e dolce cigno
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
William Byrd – This Sweet and Merry Month of May
Thomas Weelkes – Thule, the Period of Cosmography
Thomas Weelkes – All People Clap Your Hands
Thomas Weelkes – As Vesta Was, from Latmos Hill Descending
György Ligeti – Nonsense Madrigals: selection
Thomas Weelkes – The Nightingale, the organ of delight
Thomas Weelkes – The Ape, the Monkey and the Baboone
Judith Weir – Madrigal
Sarah Rimkus – My heart is like a singing bird (A birthday)
Performers
The Gesualdo Six
Programme Note
Ahead of their BBC Proms Debut, The Gesualdo Six perform their programme "Weelkes & Ligeti: A Madrigal Wonderland" which takes the audience on a journey through five centuries of madrigals, from Thomas Weelkes (celebrating his 400th anniversary this year) and Orlando Gibbons to Judith Weir and Sarah Rimkus.
“Spellbinding... The fine-grained texture of solo voices allows us to savour the amazing harmonic pungency... which at times seems almost modernist.” - The Daily Telegraph
