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Details
St Mary's Church
Darlington Street
Bathwick
Bath
Somerset
BA2 4EB
England
Programme
Bartolomeo Tromboncino – A la guerra
Marchetto Cara – Io non compro
Marchetto Cara – Non e tempo d'aspettare
Francesco Spinacino – Recercare
Bartolomeo Tromboncino – Poi che volse
Bartolomeo Tromboncino – Ostiato vo' seguire
Claudin de Sermisy – Tant que vivray
Pierre Moulu – Amy souffrez
Pierre Attaingnant – Basse danse
Thomas Crecquillon – Cessezx mes yeuz
Thomas Crecquillon – Ung triste couer
Luca Marenzio – Dicemi, la mia stella
Luca Marenzio – Fuggiero
Jean-Baptiste Besard – Ma belle si ton ame
Jean-Baptiste Besard – La voila, la nacelle
Performers
Jane Hunt – soprano
Din Ghani – lute
Musicke in the Ayre
Programme Note
Musicke in the Ayre’s first concert this year explores some of the earliest printed music for voice and lute. The pairing of voice and plucked strings has captivated listeners since medieval times, but it was the invention by the end of the 15th century of music printing with movable type—alongside the lute emerging as “King of Instruments”— that helped popularise the intimate genre of lute song. Soprano Jane Hunt and lutenist Din Ghani trace this rich repertoire from Venice around 1500 to Flanders a century later. Along the way, they delve into feisty frottole, elegant chansons, and refined madrigale—works originally written for three to five voices, republished in idiomatic and appealing arrangements for voice and lute. As well as his lute, Din will be playing a viola da mano – a guitar-shaped relative of the lute popular at the time. This is music designed to please!
