Poetry Cafe 51: „English Song (3): Late Renaissance and Baroque Song“
28.11.2016
Poems read and Music played:
Thomas Linley, Junior: The Tempest (incidental Music, 1777)
William Byrd: Ah Silly Soul
Thomas Weelkes: Some men desire spouses
Thomas Ford: There is a lady sweet and Kind (1607)
Robert Herrick: Gather ye Rose-buds while you may
William Lawes: Gather ye Rose-buds while you may (1648)
William Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses (1585)
John Blow: Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (1695)
John Blow: Venus and Adonis (1681?)
Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (1689): Dido’s Lament
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1910)