Mad Music
Sunday 2 January 2005 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)
Lucie Skeaping explores the mad songs of English composers of the 16th and 17th Centuries, including Byrd's song about the aged dame who falls down at the top of a hill, skulls rolling down the hillside all around and Dowland's "hellish jarring sounds which banish friendly sleep."
Playlist
Performers (except where otherwise indicated):
Clare Wilkinson - Mezzo soprano
Fretwork
BYRD William:
An Aged Dame
PURCELL, Henry:
With sick and famish'd eyes (A religious elegy) for soprano and continuo
Julianne BAIRD - Soprano
Colin TILNEY - Harpsichord
Alison MACKAY - Viola da gamba
DORIAN DOR 90105/4
Anon:
Come thread the paths
BLOW, John:
Lysander, I pursue in vain for voice and continuo [from "Amphion Anglicus" [1700]]
Julianne BAIRD - Soprano
Colin TILNEY - Harpsichord
Alison MACKAY - Viola da gamba
DORIAN DOR 90105/18
PARSONS Robert (1530-1570):
In nomine
BYRD William:
Quis me statim
PURCELL, Henry:
O solitude, my sweetest choice for voice and continuo (Z.406)
Julianne BAIRD - Soprano
Colin TILNEY - Harpsichord
Alison MACKAY - Viola da gamba
DORIAN Dor 90105/1
PARSONS, Robert:
Pandolpho (Pour down, you pow'rs divine)
PARSONS, Robert:
Ut re mi fa sol for consort
BYRD, William:
Come, woeful Orpheus for 5 voices [1611]
DOWLAND, John:
In darknesse let mee dwell [pub. in 'A musical banquet', 1610]
DOWLAND, John:
Sorrow stay [1600]
PURCELL, Henry:
Music for a while (From Oedipus - incidental music to Act 3)
Julianne BAIRD - Soprano
Colin TILNEY - Harpsichord
DORIAN DOR 90105/13
