Sweet Ayres of Arcadia: Lute & guitar songs with a nod to nature at The Charterhouse, London on Saturday 18th June 2022

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Sweet Ayres of Arcadia

Lute & guitar songs with a nod to nature

Add to my Calendar 18-06-2022 15:30 18-06-2022 17:30 36 Sweet Ayres of Arcadia Musicke in the Ayre kick off their 3-concert series in the historic Chapel at the Charterhouse with a programme of 17th century English songs to the lute and baroque guitar. Inspired by some of the Arcadian memes that abound in music and poetry of the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, they include songs that reflect on nature as a metaphor for love, beauty, and constancy; a nature that nevertheless exhibits transience as well as transcendence. Soprano Gwendolen Martin has performed and recorded with The Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers, The Tallis Scholars, The Gabrieli Consort, Eric Whitacre Singers, Musica Poetica and The Marian Consort, and has performed alongside Dame Emma Kirkby in her Dowland Works project. Ensemble director and lutenist Din Ghani has specialised over the last decade in curating engaging programmes that provide intriguing glimpses of this wide and wonderful repertoire The Charterhouse, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Charterhouse
Charterhouse Square
City of London
London
EC1M 6AN
England

Saturday 18th June 2022
3:30 PM

Programme

George Handford – Now each creature
Thomas Ford – How shall I then describe my love
Robert Jones – There is a garden in her face
Robert Johnson – Have you seen but a white lily grow
John Dowland – O sweet woods
Robert Johnson – Woods, rocks and mountains
John Dowland – The lowest trees have tops
Nicholas Lanier – No more shall meads
Thomas Campion – Your fair looks
Thomas Greaves – What is beauty but a breath
John Danyel – Time, cruel time
Nicholas Lanier – Mark how the blushful morn
Henry Lawes – Amidst the myrtles

Performers

Gwendolen Martin – soprano
Din Ghani – lute

Musicke in the Ayre

Programme Note

Musicke in the Ayre kick off their 3-concert series in the historic Chapel at the Charterhouse with a programme of 17th century English songs to the lute and baroque guitar. Inspired by some of the Arcadian memes that abound in music and poetry of the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, they include songs that reflect on nature as a metaphor for love, beauty, and constancy; a nature that nevertheless exhibits transience as well as transcendence. Soprano Gwendolen Martin has performed and recorded with The Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers, The Tallis Scholars, The Gabrieli Consort, Eric Whitacre Singers, Musica Poetica and The Marian Consort, and has performed alongside Dame Emma Kirkby in her Dowland Works project. Ensemble director and lutenist Din Ghani has specialised over the last decade in curating engaging programmes that provide intriguing glimpses of this wide and wonderful repertoire

Gwendolen Martin and Din Ghani at the Charterhouse

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