The Anatomy of Melancholy

Join St Mary, Wycliffe and Music in Country Churches for an evening of music to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland, one of Elizabethan England’s best-loved and enduring composers.

Francis Bamford (countertenor) and Byung-ook Kim (lute) will present a programme that includes compositions by Dowland and some of his contemporaries as they explore the repertoire of songs of melancholy, and how song can uplift our spirits.

Programme:
John Dowland (c. 1563–1626) Lachrimae
Flow my tears
Can she excuse my wrongs
Go crystal tears
Come again
Sorrow stay
Prelude
John Danyel (1564–c. 1626) Can doleful notes
Juan Vásquez (c. 1500–c. 1560) ¿Con qué la lavaré?, De los alamos vengo, madre
Alonso Mudarra (c. 1510–80) Isabel, perdiste la tu faja
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) Faire if you expect admiring