Roderick Swanston asks nine leading practitioners of early music to put away their treatises and reveal the personal element in their music-making. 2: Since the lutenist
Anthony Rooley founded the Consort of Musicke in 1969, they have led the way in bringing back to life the highly refined vocal music cultivated in the 16th and 17th centuries by Italian and English nobles. But he arrived at this via skiffle, flamenco and Vedic scriptures, and in performance he invokes the mythical, powers of Orpheus. With lute music by Dalza, Gallot le Vieux and Bach, traditional music from Iraq, Japan and India, and songs and madrigals including: Benedetto Pallavlcino
Crudelissima doglia
Dowland Dear if you change;
Come away sweet love William Lawes
Amaryllis tear thy hair John Weldon
The Appointed Hour
John Ward If Heaven's Just
Wrath
Monteverdi Misero Alceo ; Rimanti in pace; Si ch'io vorrei morire
A Scarlatti Cor mio, deh non languire
Greene Beauty -An Ode (aria) Eccles The Judgement of Paris (aria)
Rodgers and Hart My Funny Valentine
Producer Nick Morgan Discs See also tomorrow 1.15pm