Scotland Week (1/4)

Jess Dandy and Malcolm Martineau perform songs depicting 16th-century life.

“Shall I Strive with words with move?”
voicing the sixteenth century

Dowland: Shall I Strive With Words To Move?
Ravel: D’Anne jouant de l’espinette No 2
Poulenc: Ballet No 3
Berlioz: La Mort d’Ophélie, Ballade
Gounod: My True Love Hath My Heart
Schumann: Fünf Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart
Horovitz: Lady Macbeth – A Scena
Argento: Hymn No 6 from Six Elizabethan Songs
Argento: Diaphenia No 5 from Six Elizabethan Songs
Korngold: Four Shakespeare Songs op. 31
Dowland: Now, O Now I needs must part

Jess Dandy, contralto
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Presented by Ian Skelly
Produced by Lindsay Pell

Photo credit: Clare Park