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The Masque of Moments
Theatre of the Ayre; Elizabeth Kenny
Date
Tue 28 Feb 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Theatre of the Ayre
    • Elizabeth Kennydirector, lute, theorbo

    Programme

    • Anon
        • The Earl of Essex Measure
    • John Coprario
      1570-1626
        • 3 songs from the Earl of Somerset's Masque
          :
        • While dancing rests
    • Anon
        • Masque dance: The Cadua
    • Anon
        • Les Manches Vertes
    • Anon
        • The Bears' Dance
        • Tho' it may seem rude
        • Masque dance: Second of the Temple
        • Tom O'Bedlam
        • What is't you lack?
        • The maypole

    Interval

    • Anon
        • Robin
        • Lord Zouche his Masque
    • Henry Lawes
      1595-1662
        • Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen
    • William Lawes
      1602-1645
        • Valediction
        • Hence, ye prophane, far hence away
        • Wherefore do my sisters stay?
        • Thinke not I could absent myself this night
        • In envye of the night
        • Cease, waring thoughts
      • Instrumental work
    • Matthew Locke
      c.1621-1677
        • Cupid and Death
          :
        • Mercury and Nature in the Elysian Groves

    Encore

    • Ben Jonson
      1572-1637
        • To the old, long life and treasure

    Overview

    A company of standout vocalists and consort playersjoins Elizabeth Kenny and Theatre of the Ayre for aprogramme inspired by the Stuart courtly masque andits high-comic counterpart, the antimasque.

    Populardances and ditties here rub shoulders with exquisiteconsort songs by the brothers Lawes, AlfonsoFerrabosco and Giovanni Coprario, alias John Cooper.

    With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor and Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

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