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Alexander Chance
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Drop not, mine eyes
Alexander Chance countertenor; Toby Carr lute
Programme & Song Text
Date
Sun 14 Apr 2024, 3.00pm
Tickets
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Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

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Artists

  • Alexander Chancecountertenor
    Wigmore Hall Recital Debut
  • Toby Carrlute

Programme

  • John Dowland
    1563-1626
      • Preludium
      • Flow, my tears
      • Can she excuse my wrongs
      • In darkness let me dwell
      • Captain Digory Piper, his Galliard
  • John Danyel
    c.1564-1626
      • Mrs M E her funeral tears for the death of her husband
      • Pavan
  • Thomas Ford
      • What then is love, sings Coridon
      • Fair, sweet, cruel
  • Thomas Campion
    1567-1620
      • The cypress curtain of the night
      • Never weather-beaten sail
      • I care not for these ladies
  • Henry Purcell
    1659-1695
      • O solitude, my sweetest choice Z406
      • Now that the sun hath veiled his light (An Evening Hymn on a Ground) Z193

Encore

Overview

The rising young singer joins with the lutenist to reprise music from their recent eponymous CD in which, wrote Gramophone, he ‘stakes serious claim to the title of his generation’s most exciting British countertenor’.

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