Stile Antico

Friday, 14 June, 2019 at 8:00 pm

Queen of Muses

Boston Early Music Festival

Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA, United States

The reign of the great Tudor Queen, Elizabeth I, saw an unparalleled flowering of the arts in England. The ‘Virgin Queen’, herself a talented musician, presided over a court which revelled in the skill of great composers such as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and John Dowland. This programme explores the way music was used to gain favour with the Queen by courtiers and diplomats and even by suitors, seeking to gain the royal hand in marriage. Along the way we meet foreign spies, disgraced favourites and plotting noblemen, illuminating the life of a court which rejoiced in some of the finest music ever created in England.

William Byrd: The sweet and merry month of May
Thomas Tallis: Absterge Domine
Byrd: Attolite portas
Orlande de Lassus: Madonna mia pieta
Adrian Willaert: Vecchie letrose
Sandrin: Doulce memoire
Byrd: O lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Byrd: Ne irascaris, Domine
John Taverner: Christe Jesu, pastor bone
John Dowland: Now, O Now, I needs must part
Dowland: Can she excuse my wrongs
Alfonso Ferrabosco: Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Ferrabosco: O remember not our old sins
Ferrabosco: Exaudi Domine orationem meam
John Wilbye: The Lady Oriana
John Farmer: Fair nymphs I heard one telling
Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was

 

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