Saturday 25 August 2001 12:00 pm
In Darkness Let Me Dwell
| Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620) | The peaceful western wind |
| All looks be pale (Elegy on the death of Prince Henry, 1612) | |
| Jack and Joan | |
| John Dowland (1563 – 1626) | Preludium |
| An Almand | |
| Coranto | |
| Mr Dowland’s Midnight | |
| Weep you no more, sad fountains | |
| In darkness let me dwell | |
| Disdain me still | |
| Robert Ballard (c.1575 – 1650) | Première entrée de luth |
| François Richard (c.1580 – 1650) | Ruisseau qui cours après toy-même |
| Jeune beauté dont les grâces | |
| Amarante à des yeux | |
| Jacques Gaultier dAngleterre (c. 1590 – 1650) | Courante |
| Courante | |
| Volte | |
| Nicholas Lanier (1588 – 1666) | Qual musico gentil |
| Nor com’st thou yet (Hero’s Complaint to Leander) | |
| Neither sighs nor tears |
- Philippa Hyde soprano
- Fred Jacobs lute & theorbo
John Dowland virtually invented the English lute song, often achieving a perfect balance between the words and the music. This programme includes some of his greatest songs, including the melancholy masterpiece ‘In darkness let me dwell’, as well songs and lute pieces by his contemporaries and followers.
Philippa Hyde is one of the most exciting young sopranos in the early music scene, and appears regularly at the Suffolk Villages Festival. She is joined by Fred Jacobs, one of Europe’s most distinguished lutenists.