Stile Antico

Friday, 30 September, 2016 at 8:00 pm

The Touches of Sweet Harmony

Music@Malling

St Mary’s Church, West Malling, United Kingdom

To mark of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Stile Antico performs a mouthwatering programme of Elizabethan and Jacobean music. In addition to settings of words from Shakespeare’s plays, we encounter music written for the great events of his life or which explore some of the themes of his work. Completing this fascinating picture are Shakespeare-texted works by Huw Watkins and Judith Bingham.

Thomas Morley: It was a lover and his lass
William Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth 
John Dowland: Say, Love, if ever thou did’st find
Wilbye: What needeth all this travail?
Weelkes: Thule, the period of cosmography
Huw Watkins: The Phoenix and the Turtle
Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
Robert Johnson: Full fathom five
Thomas Tomkins: Be strong and of a good courage
Thomas Weelkes: When David heard
Robert Ramsey: Sleep, fleshly birth
Judith Bingham: Does the Moon Shine?
Orlando Gibbons: What is our life?