David Yardley
Come, Heavy Sleep
Music for the 400th anniversary of the burial of John Dowland
With Augustin Cornwall-Irving (lute)
Programme:
John Dowland Can She Excuse My Wrongs With Virtue’s Cloak?
Time’s Eldest Son, Old Age, The Heir Of Ease
I Saw My Lady Weep, And Sorrow Proud To Be Advanced So
Now O Now I Needs Must Part
Praeludium (Lute Solo)
A Shepherd In A Shade His Plaining Made
Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
Faction That Ever Dwells, In Court Where Wits Excels (Words by Fulke (Grenville), Lord Brooke)
Mr Dowland’s Midnight (Lute Solo)
Come, Heavy Sleep, The Image Of True Death
Thomas Morley Sleep Slumb’ring Eyes, Give Rest Unto My Cares
Thomas Campion The Cypress Curtain Of The Night Is Spread
Music on the Green
Fri, 20 February 2026
St George's Church, Esher
6:00pm
Free (retiring collection)
Full Event Details
An (almost) all-Dowland programme to mark the burial of the eponymous composer, laid to rest at St Ann’s Blackfriars on 20th February 1626.
Programme:
John Dowland Can She Excuse My Wrongs With Virtue’s Cloak?
Time’s Eldest Son, Old Age, The Heir Of Ease
I Saw My Lady Weep, And Sorrow Proud To Be Advanced So
Now O Now I Needs Must Part
Praeludium (Lute Solo)
A Shepherd In A Shade His Plaining Made
Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
Faction That Ever Dwells, In Court Where Wits Excels (Words by Fulke (Grenville), Lord Brooke)
Mr Dowland’s Midnight (Lute Solo)
Come, Heavy Sleep, The Image Of True Death
Thomas Morley Sleep Slumb’ring Eyes, Give Rest Unto My Cares
Thomas Campion The Cypress Curtain Of The Night Is Spread
Venue Details & Map
Location
St George's Church, Esher
Esher Park Avenue, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9PX
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