Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Love songs, Lute solos, and Laments
Dame Emma Kirkby, the “queen of early music” (Decca), opens the Boston Early Music Festival’s 22nd concert series together with renowned lutenist Jakob Lindberg. Kirkby has thrilled audiences around the world for her intensely expressive singing and her pure, bright tone. Enjoy this extraordinary duo in an intimate and beautiful program of 17th-century love songs from Britain and Italy with masterpieces both familiar and rare.
Free post-concert talk
PROGRAM
John Danyel: Like as the lute
John Danyel: Dost thou withdraw thy grace
John Danyel: Grief, keep within
Daniel Bacheler: Mounsiers Almain
Robert Johnson: Do but look on her eyes
Robert Johnson: Woods, rocks and mountains
Robert Johnson: As I walked forth
Robert Johnson: Almain
Robert Johnson: Pavan
Robert Johnson: Almain: Hit and take it
Thomas Morley: Come, sorrow, come
Thomas Morley: Thyrsis and Milla
Henry Lawes: Ariadne's Lamen
Henry Lawes: The Lark
Henry Lawes: Chloris, now thou art fled away
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: Toccata
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: Gagliarda
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: Corrente
Claudio Monteverdi: Voglio di vita uscir
Sigismondo D'India: Torna il sereno Zefiro
Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito amante
