Proms at Aberdeen: '‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas…’, N. Williams / E. Kenny / M. Beard

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Sunday 1 September 2024
15:00
Cowdray Hall Schoolhill
City Centre
Aberdeen
AB10 1FQ

John Blow: "Welcome, every guest" (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Plato - Palantine Anthology 9, 506

John Blow: "O Venus, Daughter Of The Mighty Jove" (first performance at The Proms)

Readings: Sappho - Poem 31

Henry Purcell: "Beneath A Dark And Melancholy Grove", Z. 461 (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Sappho - Fragment 193
Reading: Anonymous - Epitaph of Allia Potestas

Barbara Strozzi: "Begli Occhi" (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Nossis - Palatine Anthology 5, 170

Francesca Caccini: "O Vive Rose" (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Sappho - Poem 16

Francesca Caccini: "Dispiegate, guancie amate" (first performance at The Proms)

Rachel Stott: "So Says Nossis" (BBC commission, world premiere)


Interval


Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate: Dido and Aeneas - 'Thy hand, Belinda ... When I am laid in earth' (Dido's Lament)

Readings: Virgil
* Aeneid 4, 653-660 (extracts)
* Aeneid 6, 469-471

Barbara Strozzi: "Mi fa rider" (first performance at The Proms)

Francesca Caccini: "Dov'Io credea le mie speranze vere" (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Anonymous - Palatine Anthology 16, 151

Henry Purcell: The Libertine, Or The Libertine Destroyed, Z. 600; 1b. "Nymphs And Shepherds, Come Away"

Reading: Theocritus Idyll 15

Daniel Purcell: "When Daphne first her shepherd saw" (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Carolyn Kizer - "Semele Recycled"

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Semele - "Jupiter avait fait un indiscret serment" (first performance at The Proms)

Reading: Ovid - Metamorphoses 3, 280-285

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Semele - "Quel triomphe, quelle victoire" (first performance at The Proms)

Handel: Semele - "Endless pleasure"


Nardus Williams, soprano
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Dame Mary Beard, presenter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9bd2m

https://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/bbc-proms-aberdeen-cowdray-hall/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022c4t

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Updating the original post with the "set list" of this 'Proms Chamber Music' event as it proceeds, to state the obvious, with links to available and quickly accessible texts mainly from the Lieder.net website for anyone who wishes to feed the texts into an online translator. Very fine afternoon recital (so far) from Nardus W. and Elizabeth K., with Dame Mary B. holding her own as resident 'talking head' and, to use a P. D. Q. Bach-ism, intellectual guide. Of course, that does have the additional benefit of allowing Nardus Williams to rest her voice between selections, as well as allow both her and Elizabeth Kenny to take a sip of water as needed.