The Golden Age Revived
17th-century songs
Free; no tickets required. Arrive early; seating is limited. Plenty of free parking.
LISTEN to Emma Kirkby
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Jakob Lindberg, lute
P R O G R A M
Creation
So Beauty on the waters stood - Alfonso Ferrabosco
Metamorphosis
When Daphne fair - Anon.
Coy Daphne fled - John Danyel
When Phoebus first did Daphne love - John Dowland
Anon: Prelude-The English Nightingale
Heroines
Constant Penelope - William Byrd
Hero and Leander - Nicholas Lanier
William Lawes: Aire-Almain-Courante-Sarabande
Lyric poets
Thelo legein Atreidas (Anacreon) &
I long to sing (Anacreon Englished) - Henry Lawes
If mighty wealth (Anacreon) – John Blow
INTERVAL
Life, death and Fate
Diffugere nives (Horace) – John Wilson
Bianco il pel, toso il crin – Cataldo Amodei
Giovanni Kapsperger:Toccata
Alessandro Piccinini: Ciaccona Mariona alla vera Spagnola
The death of Dido
Dulces exuviae (Virgil) – Alonso Mudarra
Henry Purcell: Cebell-Ritornell-A New Irish Measure-
A Scottish Measure-A New Ground-Hornpipe
Venus and Cupid
Cupid once, when weary grown - Pelham Humphrey
Cupid, the slyest rogue alive - Henry Purcell
Sappho to the goddess of love – John Blow
12-course theorbo-lute by Michael Lowe, Wootton-by-Woodstock 2012