Artists
- Lea Desandremezzo-soprano
- Jupiter Ensemble
- Louise Ayrtonviolin
- Ruiqi Renviolin
- Jérôme Van Waerbekeviola
- Ismael Campanero Nietodouble bass
- Arnaud de Pasqualeharpsichord, organ
- Thomas Dunforddirector, lute
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Lea Desandre
Image credit: © Monika Rittershaus
Songs of Passion
Lea Desandre mezzo-soprano; Jupiter Ensemble; Thomas Dunford director, lute
- Date
- Tue 16 Sep 2025, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- £40 £37 £33 £27 £18
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket
Programme
- John Dowland1563-1626
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite
- Semper Dowland semper dolens
- Go, crystal tears
- The Frog Galliard
- Now, O now I needs must part
- Lachrimae Antiquae
- Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears
- The Earl of Essex Galliard
- Flow, my tears
- The King of Denmark, his Galliard
- Can she excuse my wrongs
Interval
- Henry Purcell1659-1695
- The Fairy Queen Z629:
- If Love's a sweet passion
- Come, ye sons of art, away Z323:
- Strike the viol, touch the lute
- O solitude, my sweetest choice Z406
- Now that the sun hath veiled his light (An Evening Hymn on a Ground) Z193
- The Fairy Queen Z629:
- Chaconne
- O let me weep
- Now the night is chas'd away
- Dido and Aeneas Z626:
- Ouverture
- Ah, Belinda
- Echo dance of the furies
- Thanks to these lonesome vales
- The Witche’s dance
- When I am laid in earth
Overview
Tears of sorrow and joy abound in the music of John Dowland and Henry Purcell, two of the greatest songwriters of all time. Their understanding of life’s fragility and the extreme emotions triggered by love, jealousy and death strike home in this spellbinding programme from Lea Desandre, winner of the Prix de la Critique 2024, and Thomas Dunford’s thrilling Jupiter Ensemble.