The Early Music Show

My Lady Rich

Saturday 12 April 2008 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)

Lucie Skeaping talks to singer Emily van Evera about her recent disc entitled My Lady Rich. Its subject, Penelope Rich, was one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting and sister to the Queen's favoured Earl of Essex, and it has been said she was a muse to poets and musicians alike, inspiring music by noted composers of Elizabethan England. With songs and instrumental pieces by John Dowland, Charles Tessier, William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, John Coprario, Robert Jones and John Bartlet.

This is a repeat of a programme first broadcast on 22nd July 2007. View Full Details

Duration:

1 hour

The Early Music Show

Episode and Playlist Information

• 20 Apr 08 Antonio Caldara
• 19 Apr 08 My Lady Rich
• 19 April 08 Charles V
• 13 Apr 08 Sacred Music
• 13 Apr 08 Acis and Galatea
• 12 Apr 08 Inspiring Lutenists
• 12 Apr 08 My Lady Rich
• 6 Apr 08 Dufay's Europe
• 6 April 08 Sacred Music
• 5 April 08 The Duke of Chandos