Artists

Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Elizabeth Kenny lute

The Birth of Song – Sacred and Secular Devotion

Journey into the intimate world of early song where the human voice and lute combine to explore love, longing, faith and devotion.

Join leading performers of early music and regular collaborators, tenor Nicholas Mulroy and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, in the historic surroundings of Holy Trinity, Boar Lane for a programme which moves between the sacred and secular worlds of seventeenth-century Europe. This crafted selection of works traces the birth of a new musical language from Renaissance song to the expressive heights of the Baroque through which the audience will experience exquisite poetry, divine lyricism, intimate storytelling and profound musical spirituality.

Programme

‘Appetiser’
Robert Johnson
Have you seen the bright lily grow?

‘Songs from A Musical Banquet’
Anon Italian
1610 Sta notte mi sognava

Giulio Caccini (arr. anon English)
Amarilli, mia bella

John Dowland
In darkness let me dwell

Heinrich Schütz
from Kleine geistliche Konzerte
Ich will den Herren loben
O Jesu nomen Dulce
O Misericordissime Jesu
‘Glories of Venice’

Alessandro Grandi
Tota Pulchra Es

Alessandro Piccinini
Toccata cromatica

Alessandro Grandi
O intemerata

Claudio Monteverdi
Nigra sum

Alessandro Piccinini
Ciaconna

Claudio Monteverdi
Laudate Dominum
‘Orpheus Britannicus’

Henry Purcell
Music for a while
In the black, dismal dungeon
Evening Hymn