Poetry Cafe 97: Mary Queen of Scots
12.03.2019
Mary Queen of Scots
Texts read and music played:
H.W. Meikle: The Story of Scotland
Marion Angus: Alas! Poor Queen
Pierre de Ronsard: Ode a Cassandre
L’Amour de Moy (16th.c. French song)
Joachim du Bellay: To the Queen of Scotland
Mary Queen of Scots: The Absent One
Claudin de Semisy: Tant que vivray (As Long as I Live)
Rev. J.A. Carruth: Farewell Tribute of the Fairest to Fair France
James Ballantine: Mary’s Farewell to France (sung by Flo MacDonald)
Alexander Scott: Welcome, illustrat Lady and our Queen
John Knox: Railing against Mary
Pierre de Chatelard: If thy doom be flame…
Liz Lochhead: Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off
Lord Darnley: If langour makis men licht…
Theodor Fontane, on the death of Riccio
Felix Mendelssohn: at the Palace of Holyrood, July 1829…
Felix Mendelssohn: Andante con moto (opening movement of Symphony no. 3, ‚Scottish‘)
William Shakespeare: from ‚A Midsummer Night’s Dream‘
From an anonymous Ballad
Mary Queeen of Scots: (a sonnet to Elizabeth): A longing haunts my spirit…
Friedrich Schiller: from Maria Stuart (confrontation scene)
Donizetti: from Maria Stuarda (confrontation scene)
Elizabeth I of England: The Daughter of Debate
Mary’s speech in her own defence at her Trial
Mary’s final words (in Latin) on the scaffold
Robert Burns: Lament of Mary Queen of Scots
Henry Purcell: Remember Me…but ah! Forget my fate, from Dido and Aeneas
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