Philomel is back with some socially-distant workshop-recordings of newly written musical miniatures. Stay, O Sweet from Virelais is a setting of words by John Donne by Canadian-born Glasgow-based composer Emily Doolittle.
Recorded in Richmond Unitarian Church, August 2020. Suzy Robinson, Janet Oates and Michael Keen perform.
Stay O Sweet (video)
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Philomel’s last performance was an evening of 17th century passion and intimacy. ‘Folle Cor’ presented duets and trios from the courts of Northern Italy, by composers including Mazzocchi, Strozzi, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Casulana, on the themes of love and obsession. This was Philomel’s first programme of purely historical repertoire.
Here is a short video of sopranos Janet Oates, Suzy Robinson and Charlotte Bröker accompanied by Michael Keen and Arngeir Hauksson in the enchanting candle-lit venue of the Barn Church, Kew (http://barnchurchkew.uk/).
The six sopranos of Philomel will be performing their Cecilia Sings concert on Saturday 4 May, 7.30pm, at St George the Martyr, Southwark. It will be a repeat of the eclectic programme performed at the Swiss Church, Covent Garden, last autumn.
Piangete occhi, Domenico Mazzocchi
Emily Peace, soprano Suzy Robinson, soprano
James Bramley, theorbo Michael Keen, harpsichord
Ahi possanza d’amor, Maddalena Casulana
Suzy Robinson, soprano, Michael Keen, recorder, James Bramley, theorbo
Folle cor, Domenico Mazzocchi
Suzy Robinson, Janet Oates, Emily Peace, sopranos
Michael Keen, harpsichord
James Bramley, theorbo
Io d’odorate, Maddalena Casulana
Sopranos Janet Oates, Emily Peace, Suzy Robinson, Felicity Hayward, Charlotte Bröker and Olivia Moss
Michael Keen, harpsichord, James Bramley, theorbo
Suzy Robinson soprano 