Programme
Creation
Alfonso Ferrabosco: So Beauty on the waters stood
Metamorphosis
Anon: When Daphne fair
John Danyel: Coy Daphne fled
John Dowland: When Phoebus first did Daphne love
John Dowland: Preludium-Fantasia
Heroines
William Byrd: Constant Penelope
Henry Lawes: Ariadne’s Lament
Robert Johnson: Almain
Anon: The Nightingale
Lyric poets
Henry Lawes: Thelo legein Atreidas (Anacreon) & I long to sing (Anacreon Englished)
John Wilson: Diffugere nives (Horace)
John Blow: If mighty wealth (Anacreon)
Henry Purcell: Cebell-Ritornell - A New Irish Measure - A New Scottish Measure - A New Ground-Hornpipe
Venus and Cupid
Pelham Humphrey: Cupid once, when weary grown
John Blow: Sappho to the goddess of love