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Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Jacob Lindberg (lute)

  • New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk Leicester, LE1 6TP United Kingdom (map)

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



Earlier Event: March 3
Noam Greenberg (piano)