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In Angel’s Wede: Music For Mary Queen of Scots – The Baltimore Consort
Music from Scotland, France, England and Italy with a captivating narration by Emmy Award winner (and television and radio personality) Robert Aubry Davis.
The short life of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was the stuff of great drama. Why has this sixteenth-century Scottish queen captivated us for centuries? The layers of romance, deceit, political maneuvering, and the long Catholic and Protestant feud are all told in Mary’s tale.
Program:
Prelude
The gowans are gay – John Forbes, Songs and Fancies, 1662
Adew Dundee – Skene MS c. 1630-33
Youth in France
Reading: Fair flower of fifteen springs (Ronsard)
C’est moys de May – Clement Janequin (1485-1558)
Queen’s Pavane and Gaillarde – Estienne du Tertre, VIIme livre de danceries, 1557
J’ay suis desheritee – Pierre Cadeac, Quart livre …chansons nouvelles, 1540
Branles d’escosse – Estienne du Tertre
Reading: Dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health… (Arbeau)
A suite of branles – Thoinet Arbeau, Orchesographie, 1589
Reading: Ronsard, if your good, gentle-natured heart (Mary)
Mignonne allons voir si la rose – Ronsard, pub. Jehan Chardavoine, Voix de ville, 1576
Gaillarde d’escosse – Pierre Phalèse, Liber primus leviorum carminum, 1572
Bransle d’escosse – Estienne du Tertre
Ma petite colombelle – Ronsard, Jehan Chardavoine, Voix de ville, 1576
Intermission
Back home in Scotland
Lady Cassilles Lilt – Anonymous
Alace, I ly alon – Anon. Skene MS
What mightie motion Anon. – Thomas Wode’s Partbooks c.1562-1590
Reading: For who can denie… (John Knox)
Our Father God celestiall – Pierre Cadeac (fl.1538-1558)
Lutenist, David Riccio, The Pope’s “spy”
La Spagna – Francesco da Milano (1497-1543)
Morir non puo il mio core – Maddalena Casulana (1544-1590)
Fantasia No. 34 – Francesco da Milano
Imprisonment and Execution in England
Reading: O Lord my God, receive my prayer (Mary)
In Angel’s Wede – William Byrd (ca.1540-1623)
Reading: Alive a Queen, now dead I am a Saint (Robert Southwell)
A Scot’s Tune – Jane Pickeringe Lute Book, ca.1617
Green grows the rashes – Anon., Balcarres Lute Book 1692-94
Musicians:
Mary Ann Ballard
Mark Cudek, cittern, bass viol
Larry Lipkis, viols, recorders
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Mindy Rosenfeld, winds
Danielle Svonavec, soprano
with Robert Aubry Davis, narrator
Doors open at 6:45; pre-concert talk at 7:00.
Youth and students are admitted free at the door.
Artists: Mary Ann Ballard, Mark Cudek, Larry Lipkis, Ronn McFarlane, Mindy Rosenfeld, Danielle Svonavec, Robert Aubry Davis, The Baltimore Consort