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Proms Aberdeen: ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World

Live at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms: Soprano Nardus Williams, Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and Dame Mary Beard. Songs, arias and stories from the Ancient World.

Live at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms: Soprano Nardus Williams, Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and Dame Mary Beard. Songs, arias and stories from the Ancient World.

Presented by Jamie MacDougall, live from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.

Songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.

John Blow: Welcome, welcome, ev’ry guest
Reading, Plato: Palantine Anthology 9:506
John Blow: Venus, daughter of the mighty Jove
Reading, Sappho: Poem 31
Henry Purcell: Beneath a dark and melancholy grove
Reading, Sappho: Fragment 193
Reading, Anonymous: Epitaph of Allia Potestas
Barbara Strozzi: Begli’occhi Op. 2
Reading, Nossis: Palatine Anthology 5:170
Francesca Caccini: O vive rose
Reading, Sappho: Poem 16
Francesca Caccini: Dispiegate, guancie amate
Rachel Stott: So Says Nossis (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ commission: world premiere)

Interval

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ 
Reading, Virgil: Aeneid 4:653-60 (extracts); Aenied 6:469-71
Barbara Strozzi: Mi fa rider, Op. 7
Francesca Caccini: Where I thought my hopes were real
Reading, Anonymous: Palatine Anthology 16:151
Henry Purcell: The Libertine – ‘Nymphs and Shepherds’
Reading, Theocritus Idyll 15
Daniel Purcell: When Daphne first her Shepherd saw
Reading, Carloyn Kizer: Semele Recycled
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele - ‘Jupiter avait fait un indiscret serment’
Reading, Ovid: Metamorposes 3:280-5
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele: Quel triomphe, quelle victoire
George Frideric Handel, arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele - ‘Endless Pleasure’

2 hours, 27 minutes

Music Played

  • John Blow

    Welcome, Welcome, Ev'ry Guest

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • John Blow

    O Venus, Daughter Of The Mighty Jove

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Henry Purcell

    Beneath A Dark And Melancholy Grove Z.461

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Begli Occhi

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Francesca Caccini

    O Vive Rose

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Dispiegate

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Rachel Stott

    So Says Nossis

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon Musagete

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagete.
    • LSO Live.
  • Henry Purcell

    When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido's Lament)

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Mi Fa Rider

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Dov'io Credea Le Mie Speranze

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Henry Purcell

    Nymphs And Shepherds, Come Away

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Daniel Purcell

    When Daphne First Her Shepherd Saw - Song

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Jupiter Avait fait un indiscret serment

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Quel triomphe quelle victoire

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Semele - Opera ; Act 1; Endless Pleasure, Endless Love -

    Performer: Nardus Williams. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K.207 - I. Allegro Moderato

    Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K.207 - II. Adagio

    Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K.207 - III. Presto

    Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole, M.54 - I. Prélude à la nuit

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole, M.54 - II. Malagueña

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54 (IV. Feria)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 Sep 2024 15:00

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