A Delightful Thing: Music and Readings from a Melancholy Man
From this year's York Early Music Festival, Iestyn Davies and Elizabeth Kenny perform songs and instrumental pieces by that most dolorous of Elizabethan composers - John Dowland.
From this year's York Early Music Online Festival, countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny perform songs, instrumental pieces and readings by that most dolorous of Elizabethan composers - John Dowland.
鈥淪orrow was there made fair / And passion wise, tears a delightful thing鈥�. Dowland knew that in love, the only thing sweeter than happiness was sorrow. Few living interpreters understand his music more profoundly than Iestyn Davies and he鈥檚 devised an evening of poetry, music and drama for voice and lute to explore a composer for whom a single teardrop can hold a universe of emotion.
Presented by Hannah French
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John Dowland
Praeludium
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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John Dowland
All ye whom love or fortune hath betraide
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
A fancy
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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John Dowland
Behold a wonder here
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Come away, come sweet love
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Time stands still in gazing on her face
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Fortune my foe
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. -
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John Dowland
My thoughts are wingde with hopes
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Say love if ever thou didst find
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
I saw my lady weepe
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Flow my tears (Lachrimae)
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Sorrow stay
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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John Dowland
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies. -
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Johnny Marr
There is a light that never goes out
Composer: Morrissey. Composer: john porter. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
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- Sun 9 Aug 2020 14:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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