Fretwork with Iestyn Davies: Concert

These stars of the early music world dazzle in a striking range of repertoire spanning four centuries. You’ll hear music by English masters including pieces by Byrd, Purcell and Jenkins from the heyday of the viol. Arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare and a “vocal concerto” by Johann Christoph Bach offer a spotlight for a Davies, a singer of “rapturous virtuosity and uncanny beauty” (The Independent). Partnering with “the finest viol consort on the planet” (Evening Standard, London), Davies conjures breathtaking colors and timbres: a palette perfect for a moment in the sunlit stillness of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Silent Noon.
Program:
[0:25] Introduction by Susan Vita, Chief, Music Division
[07:00] William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
My mind to me
Fantasia “Two parts in one”
Ye Sacred Muses
Browning
[26:10] Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Sky Above
Silent Noon
[33:30] Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Fantasia in Four Parts
[39:00] J.C. Bach (1735-1782)
Lamento
[48:30] Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Beltà poi che t’assenti
Dolcissima mia vita
Sparge la notte
[1:00:00] Henry Lawes (1596-1662)
Consort Set in A minor - Fantazy, Fantazy, Aire
[1:09:00] John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Fantasia in Five Parts
[1:14:00] George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Già l’ebro mio ciglio
Passacaille
Piangerò
[1:31:00] Encore: Henry Purcell 1659-1695)
Music for a while
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