Iestyn Davies, Thomas Dunford

Iestyn Davies, one of the most admired countertenors of our time, performs a programme of beautiful early English songs by Danyel, Dowland and Johnson. The star French lutenist Thomas Dunford both accompanies and performs several solos.

Programme of music to include:

Johnson: Have you seen the bright lily grow?; Care–charming sleep; From the Famous Peak of Derby
Dowland: Semper Dowland semper dolens (lute solo)
Danyel: Grief, keep within (parts 1 – 3); Why canst thou not, as others
do?; Can doleful notes? (parts 1 – 3);
Dowland: Mrs Winter's Jump (lute solo)
Campion: Never weather-beaten sail
Nico Muhly: Old Bones
Dowland: Lachrimae (lute solo); Come again, sweet love doth now invite; In darkness let me dwell; The King of Denmark’s Galliard (lute solo); Can she excuse my wrongs; Flow, my tears, fall from your springs; Now, O Now My Needs Must Part including ‘The Frog Galliard’ (lute solo)