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Stile Antico and Fretwork celebrate a Shakespearean anniversary

Two early music groups – viol consort Fretwork and vocal ensemble Stile Antico – team up to celebrate a Shakespearean anniversary.

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Today's concert, introduced by Petroc Trelawny, comes from 2016, when vocal ensemble Stile Antico and viol consort Fretwork combined to celebrate the 400th anniversary year of the death of England’s great bard, William Shakespeare. Their programme contrasts music by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with new settings from Nico Muhly and Composer in Association with the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú National Orchestra of Wales, Huw Watkins. In the words of Shakespeare himself, ‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music creep in our ears …’

Morley: It was a lover and his lass
Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Byrd: Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?
Huw Watkins: The Phoenix and the Turtle
Byrd: Fantasia a 5, 'Two parts in one in the fourth above’
Tomkins: Be strong and of a good courage
Ramsey: Sleep, fleshly birth
Byrd: Browning a 5, 'The leaves be green’
Johnson: Full fathom five
Nico Muhly: Gentle sleep
Gibbons: In nomine No 1
Wilbye: Draw on, sweet night

Fretwork
Stile Antico

(From the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Proms, 15 August 2016)

57 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Aug 2020 13:00

Music Played

  • Thomas Morley

    It was a lover and his lass

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
  • William Byrd

    O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth

    Ensemble: Stile Antico. Ensemble: Fretwork.
  • William Byrd

    Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

    Ensemble: Stile Antico. Ensemble: Fretwork.
  • Huw Watkins

    The Phoenix and the Turtle

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
  • William Byrd

    Fantasia a 5, Two parts in one in the fourth above

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Be strong and of a good courage

    Ensemble: Stile Antico. Ensemble: Fretwork.
  • Robert Ramsey

    Sleep, fleshly birth

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
  • William Byrd

    Browning a 5, 'The leaves be green'

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
  • Robert Johnson

    Full fathom five

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
  • Nico Muhly

    Gentle sleep

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    In nomine No. 1

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
  • John Wilbye

    Draw on, sweet night

    Ensemble: Stile Antico. Ensemble: Fretwork.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Aug 2020 13:00

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