Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

On International Women’s Day, soprano Ruby Hughes launches her much-anticipated album Heroines of Love and Loss.

A programme of

Kapsberger Toccata Arpeggiata

Purcell ‘O lead me to some peaceful gloom’ (Bonduca)

Vivaldi Preludio – Largo from Cello sonata in G minor

John Bennet Venus’s birds

Vivaldi Allemanda – Andante from Cello sonata in G minor

Barbara Strozzi ‘L’Eraclito amoroso’

Piccinini Ciaccona for theorbo solo

Claudia Sessa ‘Occhi io vissi di voi’

Antonia Bembo ‘Ha, Que l’absence est un cruel martire’

Anon The willow song

Barbara Strozzi ‘Lagrime mie’

Francesca Caccini ‘Lasciatemi qui solo’

Vivaldi Sarabanda – Largo from Cello sonata in G minor

Lucrezia Vizzana ‘O magnum mysterium’

Purcell ‘Dido’s Lament’ (Dido and Aeneas)

Vivaldi Giga – Allegro from Cello sonata in G minor

Attributed to Anne Boleyn O death rock me asleep