Details

St Paul's Church
West Street
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 2RR
England

Saturday 27th October 2018
1:00 PM

Programme

John Dowland – Selected Works

Performers

Elin Manahan Thomas – soprano
Elizabeth Kenny – lute

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Programme Note

Two of the UK’s leading artists present an intriguing programme highlighting political 'games' of renaissance Europe.

Elizabeth I plots to keep France, Spain and Scotland on her side through years of marriage promises, flirtation, pacts and treaties. Includes music by Dowland, Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Carissimi and others.

Programme to include:
Songs by Guillaume Tessier
Works from Dowland’s First Book of Songes 1597
Songs by William Byrd from the Paston Lute Book
Spanish songs from A Musical Banquet (published by Robert Dowland)
Lute works by Francesco da Milano (collected in the Elizabethan lute book, the Marsh Lute Book)
Thomas Morley’s Italian-inspired Canzonets
Carissimi’s Il Lamento di Maria Stuarda