Music and Poetry in the Medieval Mediterranean

Paul Bentley-Angell (tenor)
Hannah Ely (soprano)
Rebekah Jones (mezzo-soprano)
with members of the Musical Lives project, King's College London

The Madrigal Reimagined: CD Launch concert and drinks reception at the University Women's Club, in association with the British Italian Society

Christophoro Martino & Girolamo Lambardi

Blasius Amon

Spem in alium

The programme features two dramatic laments: Carissimi’s bitter ‘Lament of Mary Stuart’, the almost queen of England, and Barbara Strozzi’s Apollo scored for soprano, two violins and basso continuo, one of her most substantial pieces - perhaps as close as this great composer came to writing opera.  

                                             
Julia Doyle & Hannah Ely - sopranos
Aileen Henry - harp
Toby Carr - theorbo
Kinga Ujszaszi & Manami Mizumoto - violins       

Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset