Madrigals and Verse Anthems of Elizabethan England

Various composers: Weelkes, Wilbye, Gibbons, Morley

The rise of the English madrigal in the last decades of the 16th century coincided with the heydey of the English sonnet sequence. Here we present English secular vocal music, both solemn and joyous, by England's finest madrigal composers of the period, plus verse anthems of the late 16th and early 17th century Anglican church.

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Programme

Chamber organ Douglas Mews

Douglas Mews plays the Drake Chamber Organ, part of the keyboard collection at the School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington

"Since Robin Hood" - Soprano part of a madrigal by Thomas WeelkesVerse Anthem: Out of the Deep - Thomas Morley 1557?-1602

Fair Nymphs - John Farmer 1570?-1601
Your shining eyes - Thomas Bateson 1570?-1630
Late in my rash accounting - Thomas Morley 1557?-1602

Amyntas with his Phyllis fair - Francis Pilkington 1565?-1638
Phyllis, farewell - Thomas Bateson
Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone - John Farmer

Organ: Fancy - Thomas Tomkins 1572-1656

Verse Anthem: My Shepherd is the Living Lord - Thomas Tomkins

Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend - Thomas Weelkes 1576?-1623
Ye sacred muses, race of Jove - William Byrd 1540?-1623

Verse Anthem: See, see, the word is incarnate - Orlando Gibbons

Organ: Rowland - attrib. Thomas Weelkes

Verse Anthem: How long wilt thou forget me - Jeremiah Clarke 1673?-1707

Interval

Sweet suffolk owl - Thomas Vautor 1590?-1622?
Fair is the rose - Orlando Gibbons 1583?-1625

Verse Anthem: If ye be risen again with Christ - Orlando Gibbons

Say, gentle nymphs - Thomas Morley
Construe my meaning - Giles Farnaby 1565?-1640
Weep O mine eyes - John Bennet 1570?-1614?

Organ: Barafostus' Dreame - Thomas Tomkins

Verse Anthem: Give ear, O Lord - Thomas Weelkes

Cease sorrows now - Thomas Weelkes
All creatures now are merry - John Bennet

Verse Anthem: O Praise the Lord - Walter Porter 1588?-1659

2pm*, Sunday 13 June 2004
St Mary of the Angels
Boulcott Street, Wellington

* pre-concert talk at 1.45pm

$25 / $15

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