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SAMPLE PROGRAMMES
The Italian Connection
Distracted Ladies
A Programme for Voice and Strings
Music in Georgian London
The Continuing Tradition:
English 17th and 20th century music for voice and continuo
The Lily and the Rose
Voice and Clavichord from Telemann to Mozart
The Italian Connection
(Italian Music and its influence in Northern Europe)
Elizabethan Songs, including Jones’s Ite Calde Sospiri
Byrd’s Passamezzo Pavan
Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna,
and Lanier’s dramatic monologue in the same style Nor coms’t thou yet
Cesti: Aspettate! Adesso canto!
Vivaldi concerto, arranged for harpsichord by Bach
Italian cantatas by Handel and Montéclair
Italianate harpsichord music by Balbastre
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Distracted Ladies
Ramsey, Go, perjured man, and if thou ere return
Bales, Chloris sigh’d
Lanier, Hero and Leander
Eccles, The foolish maid, and I burn
Monteverdi, Lamento d’Arianna
Purcell, When first Amyntas sued, and Bess of Bedlam
Handel’s oratorio Hercules, condensed to three arias and recitative
Couperin, La Convalescente, La Sophie, and other appropriate pieces
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A Programme for Voice and Strings
Cantatas by Schütz, Riccio and Weiland
interspersed with trio sonatas and canzonas by
Corelli, Legrenzi and Frescobaldi
Scarlatti, Salve Regina
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Music in Georgian London
Songs by Arne and others, written for performance in Vauxhall and Ranelagh Gardens
Flute and Recorder sonatas by Croft and Daniel Purcell
Keyboard music by Arne
Cello Sonata by Eccles
Cantata Mi Palpita il Cor by Handel
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Secular and spiritual songs by Purcell and Lawes
(including Gather Ye Rosebuds, When First Amyntas Sued for a Kiss, The Aspiration, An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Matthew Locke)
Keyboard Music by Purcell
Tippett's Three Songs for Ariel
Keyboard Music by Herbert Howells
Gillian Carcas's
The Ladies' Defence
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The Lily and the Rose
French and English Music from the 14th to the 18th Century for Voice, Viols, Cello and Harpsichord
Chanson de Femme by Richart de Fournival
Renaissance songs and keyboard music by Gervaise, Susato and others
Cello sonata by Boismortier
Cantata La Trionfe de la Constance by Montéclair
Purcell's Lord What is Man
Jeremiah Clarke's Blest be Those Sweet Regions
Viol music by Byrd, and Divisions on Greensleeves
Songs by Campian and Dowland
Keyboard pieces from the Mulliner Book
Lionel Power's Anima Mea
Als y lay (Anon English 14th century)
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Eighteenth century German songs and keyboard pieces,
including songs by Goethe which were later set by Schubert and other composers.
Songs by Telemann and C P E Bach
C P E Bach's Sonata (No. 2 of the Probestücke)
Two songs by Schulz
Reichardt's setting of the Mignon songs from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister
Reichardt's Sonata number 2 of the 1778 publication
Reichard's setting of
Erlkönig
Mozart's
Dans un Bois
and the Fantasia in D minor for keyboard
Kayser's
Um Friede
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