Musica Antica
Eliza Jane Cassey soprano
Caitlin Golding mezzo soprano
Tristram Cooke countertenor
Oliver Doyle tenor & harpsichord
Joachim Sabbat bass
Maxim del Mar violin
Flora Fontanelli violin
Harry Buckoke viola da gamba
Peter Martin theorbo
La Caduta Di Troia
The Fall of Troy
Staged live at Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe, SE16 5HF.
Centred around Cavalli's depiction of the flight of Aeneas and fall of Troy in La Didone, Musica Antica weave the work of some of the most daring composers of the 16th and 17th Centuries into a drama celebrating the powerful and highly experimental musical language of the Renaissance and Early Baroque, ending with Aeneas' fateful visit to Carthage, immortalised by Purcell's Dido & Aeneas.
Programme
Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 6 in G minor
Francesco Cavalli: La Didone (act I excerpts)
Nicola Vicentino: L'aura che verde lauro
Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a 4 in G minor
Vicente Lusitano: Heu me, Domine
Jacopo Peri: Tu dormi | Lungi dal vostro lume
Anon: Violin Sonata in D
H.I.F Biber: Ciacona from the Mensa Sonora
Carlo Gesualdo: Moro, Lasso
Claudio Monteverdi: Anima Mea, Perdona | Piagn'e Sospira
Giovanni Legrenzi: Lumi Potete Piangere
Henry Purcell: Dido's Lament | With drooping wings