The Dowland Song Project
| Dowland | Come, heavy sleep |
| Can she excuse my wrongs | |
| Come again, sweet love doth now invite | |
| Dowland’s Adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell | |
| In darkness let me dwell | |
| Mourn, day is with darkness fled | |
| If floods of tears | |
| The King of Denmark’s Galliard | |
| Away with these self-loving lads | |
| Weep you more, sad fountains | |
| Say, Love, if ever thou did’st find | |
| An heart that’s broken and contrite | |
| Divisions on Lachrimae Antiquae Pavan | |
| Up merry mates, to Neptune’s praise | |
| If that a sinner’s sighs | |
| Welcome black night – Cease these false sports |
- led by:
- Philippa Hyde soprano
- Elizabeth Kenny lute
- Reiko Ichise bass viol
This year we mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the lutenist John Dowland, the greatest song composer of the Elizabethan age. His four collections, published between 1597 and 1612, contain an extraordinary variety of songs ranging from light, humorous dance songs to tragic masterpieces, exploring Dowland’s famous melancholic persona.
Most of Dowland’s songs are laid out so that they can be performed as solos with lute or as partsongs, and these four-voice versions, rarely performed, form the basis of our last educational initiative, in which three leading early music specialists mentor student singers who are studying the specialised techniques needed for Dowland’s music. Philippa Hyde will also contribute some solo lute songs, and there will be lute solos from Elizabeth Kenny and bass viol solos from Reiko Ichise.
TICKETS: £20 (reserved) & £15 (unreserved)
HALF-PRICE TO THOSE UNDER 30