Madrigalmania
Thursday 16 June 2011, 19:30 – 21:30
St Mary Aldermary [ map ]
Watling Street
London EC4M 9BW
Orlando Chamber Choir
James Weeks, director
Lynda Sayce, lute
Madrigalmania ventures off the beaten madrigal track to explore the riches of the 1590s madrigal craze – its boom, its bust and its delicious slow decline.
Programme
Thomas Morley (1557 – 1602)
Fyer, fyer!
William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)
La verginella – But not so soon
Thomas Morley (1557 – 1602)
April is in my mistress' face
I love, alas
Say, gentle nymphs
No, no, no, no, Nigella
John Dowland (c.1563 – 1626)
Come again, sweet love (soprano and lute)
Thomas Morley (1557 – 1602)
Sweet nymph, come to thy lover (soprano duet)
Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620)
I care not for these ladies (baritone and lute)
Anthony Holborne (c.1545 – 1602)
Four lute ayres (lute)
Thomas Weelkes (1576 – 1623)
Like two proud armies
Thule, the period of cosmography
As Vesta was
John Wilbye (1574 – 1638)
Sweet honey-sucking bees
Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting
John Dowland (c.1563 – 1626)
Sweet, stay awhile (baritone and lute)
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Ah, dear heart
John Dowland (c.1563 – 1626)
Time stands still (soprano and lute)
Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620)
Follow thy fair sun (baritone and lute)
John Danyel (1564 – c.1626)
Two lute ayres (lute)
John Ward (1590 – 1638)
Out from the vale
Thomas Weelkes (1576 – 1623)
Death hath deprived me
John Wilbye (1574 – 1638)
Draw on, sweet night
