Performers
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Nicholas Mulroy and Elizabeth Kenny – Morning Recital
Book NowThe Birth of Song – Sacred and Secular Devotion
Journey into the intimate world of early song where the human voice and lute combine to explore love, longing, faith and devotion.
Join leading performers of early music and regular collaborators, tenor Nicholas Mulroy and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, in the historic surroundings of Holy Trinity, Boar Lane for a programme which moves between the sacred and secular worlds of seventeenth-century Europe.
This crafted selection of works traces the birth of a new musical language from Renaissance song to the expressive heights of the Baroque through which the audience will experience exquisite poetry, divine lyricism, intimate storytelling and profound musical spirituality.
Start time
11am
End time
12pm
Duration
1 hour
Programme
‘Appetiser’
Robert Johnson Have you seen the bright lily grow?
‘Songs from A Musical Banquet’
Anon Italian 1610 Sta notte mi sognava
Giulio Caccini (arr. anon English) Amarilli, mia bella
John Dowland In darkness let me dwell
Heinrich Schütz from Kleine geistliche Konzerte
Ich will den Herren loben
O Jesu nomen Dulce
O Misericordissime Jesu
‘Glories of Venice’
Alessandro Grandi Tota Pulchra Es
Alessandro Piccinini Toccata cromatica
Alessandro Grandi O intemerata
Claudio Monteverdi Nigra sum
Alessandro Piccinini Ciaconna
Claudio Monteverdi
Laudate Dominum
‘Orpheus Britannicus’
Henry Purcell
Music for a while
In the black, dismal dungeon
Evening Hymn
