BBC Proms 2024 – Proms Aberdeen - ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas …’ Women’s Stories from the Ancient World (320kbps .mp3)
Live at the BBC Proms: Soprano Nardus Williams, Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and Dame Mary Beard. Songs, arias and stories from the Ancient World.
Songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.
01. Blow, John - Welcome, welcome, ev’ry guest 01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2024 – Proms Aberdeen 01b. Mary Beard addresses the audience 02. Blow, John - Venus, daughter of the mighty Jove 02a. Reading – Sappho - Poem 31 03. Purcell - Beneath a dark and melancholy grove 03a. Reading – Sappho - Fragment 193 and Epitaph of Allia Potestas 04. Strozzi, Barbara - Begli’occhi Op. 2 04a. Reading, Nossis - Palatine Anthology 5:170 05. Caccini, Francesca - O vive rose 05a. Reading, Sappho - Poem 16 06. Caccini, Francesca - Dispiegate, guancie amate 07. Stott, Rachel - So Says Nossis (BBC commission: world premiere) 07a. BBC Proms 2024 – Proms Aberdeen - interval 08. Purcell - Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ 08a. Reading, Virgil - Aeneid 4:653-60 (extracts), Aenied 6:469-71 09. Strozzi, Barbara - Mi fa rider, Op. 7 09a. Mary Beard introduces Caccini 10. Caccini, Francesca - Where I thought my hopes were real 10a. Reading, Anonymous - Palatine Anthology 16:151 11. Purcell - The Libertine – ‘Nymphs and Shepherds’ 11a. Reading, Theocritus Idyll 15 12. Purcell, Daniel - When Daphne first her Shepherd saw 12a. Reading, Carloyn Kizer - Semele Recycled 13. Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre arr. Elizabeth Kenny - Semele - ‘Jupiter avait fait un indiscret serment’ 13a. Reading, Ovid - Metamorposes 3:280-5 14. Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, arr. Elizabeth Kenny – Semele - Quel triomphe, quelle Victoire 14a. Mary Beard introduces Handel’s Semele 15. Handel, arr. Elizabeth Kenny - Semele - ‘Endless Pleasure’
Presented by Jamie MacDougall, live from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.
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