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David Yardley

Dowland 400th Anniversary Concert

With Augustin Cornwall-Irving (lute)

Dowland 400th Anniversary Concert
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


Part of the Music-at-Hill lunchtime concert series, running from 13:00 to 13:45. Admission to these concerts is free, with a retiring cash collection.

  • festival Music-at-Hill
  • date Fri, 20 February 2026
  • location St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London
  • time 1:00pm
  • ticket Free (retiring cash 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

Part of the Music-at-Hill lunchtime concert series, running from 13:00 to 13:45. Admission to these concerts is free, with a retiring cash collection.

Venue Details & Map

Location

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London
Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DQ


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