Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Ayres

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Drew Ivarson, tenor and Daniel Keene, lute full profile / Lute & Voice / 2 musicians

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Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
The First Booke of Ayres (1600)

The Poore Astronomers (Drew Ivarson, Tenor and Daniel Keene, lute) to perform the surviving lute songs of Elizabethan composer Thomas Morley on gut-strung period instruments:

I. A Painted Tale
II. Thirsis and Milla, the first part
III. She straight her light, the second part
IV. With my love
V. I saw my Ladie weeping
VI. It was a lover
VII. Who is it that this darke night
VIII. Mistresse mine
IX. Can I forget
X. Love winged my hopes
XI. What if my mistresse
XII. Come sorrow come
XIII. Faire in a morne
XIV: Absence here thou

Program order may vary.
*Program to include solos for the lute by other Elizabethan composers.

Historical context

English Elizabethan Renaissance Lute Songs

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