Proms Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World
Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Soprano Nardus Williams, Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and Dame Mary Beard. Songs, arias and stories from the Ancient World.
Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Soprano Nardus Williams, Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and Dame Mary Beard. Songs, arias and stories from the Ancient World.
Presented by Jamie MacDougall, live from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.
Songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.
John Blow: Welcome, welcome, ev’ry guest
Reading, Plato: Palantine Anthology 9:506
John Blow: Venus, daughter of the mighty Jove
Reading, Sappho: Poem 31
Henry Purcell: Beneath a dark and melancholy grove
Reading, Sappho: Fragment 193
Reading, Anonymous: Epitaph of Allia Potestas
Barbara Strozzi: Begli’occhi Op. 2
Reading, Nossis: Palatine Anthology 5:170
Francesca Caccini: O vive rose
Reading, Sappho: Poem 16
Francesca Caccini: Dispiegate, guancie amate
Rachel Stott: So Says Nossis (91Èȱ¬ commission: world premiere)
Interval
Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ 
Reading, Virgil: Aeneid 4:653-60 (extracts); Aenied 6:469-71
Barbara Strozzi: Mi fa rider, Op. 7
Francesca Caccini: Where I thought my hopes were real
Reading, Anonymous: Palatine Anthology 16:151
Henry Purcell: The Libertine – ‘Nymphs and Shepherds’
Reading, Theocritus Idyll 15
Daniel Purcell: When Daphne first her Shepherd saw
Reading, Carloyn Kizer: Semele Recycled
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele - ‘Jupiter avait fait un indiscret serment’
Reading, Ovid: Metamorposes 3:280-5
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele: Quel triomphe, quelle victoire
George Frideric Handel, arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele - ‘Endless Pleasure’
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John Blow
Welcome, Welcome, Ev'ry Guest
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John Blow
O Venus, Daughter Of The Mighty Jove
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Henry Purcell
Beneath A Dark And Melancholy Grove Z.461
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Barbara Strozzi
Begli Occhi
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Francesca Caccini
O Vive Rose
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Francesca Caccini
Dispiegate
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Rachel Stott
So Says Nossis
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Apollon Musagete
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagete.
- LSO Live.
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Henry Purcell
When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido's Lament)
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Barbara Strozzi
Mi Fa Rider
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Francesca Caccini
Dov'io Credea Le Mie Speranze
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Henry Purcell
Nymphs And Shepherds, Come Away
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Daniel Purcell
When Daphne First Her Shepherd Saw - Song
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Jupiter Avait fait un indiscret serment
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Quel triomphe quelle victoire
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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George Frideric Handel
Semele - Opera ; Act 1; Endless Pleasure, Endless Love -
Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K.207 - I. Allegro Moderato
Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K.207 - II. Adagio
Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K.207 - III. Presto
Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole, M.54 - I. Prélude à la nuit
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole, M.54 - II. Malagueña
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54 (IV. Feria)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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