Four-voice ayres from Dowland's third and fourth songbooks

John Dowland's oeuvre of over 80 published songs spans decades of stylistic development.

In this concert the ensemble Dowland's Foundry explores his mature works, with songs that seem to commemorate the old Queen Elizabeth I in the year of her death (1603) from the Third Book of Ayres, and some lively theatre songs, through to his last great collection, A Pilgrim's Solace (1612), in which an older man's life experience and spiritual maturity expresses itself in songs of timeless profundity (1612).