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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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.
…children or animals.
It was a beautiful christening at the Temple Church. Jimmy the corgi was pretty restrained on the whole. He only barked at the vicar once, growled but momentarily at the sleeping Knights, and while he did bite at his backside vigorously as I sang a bit of Mozart, he didn’t invade the performance space like little M. Nor did he try and join in, or do a little comedy routine, or dance a jig. Valiant efforts from others to encourage the mini-performer to vacate the stage were met with tenacity and evasion. She saw the spotlight and liked it. Like mother, like daughter. Oh well.
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
Après un rêve (Op. 7, No. 1), Gabriel Fauré
Sure on this shining night, Samuel Barber
O Waly Waly, Benjamin Britten
Ave Maria (extract), Bach-Gounod
Domine Deus, Antonio Vivaldi (live recording from Santa Maria in Aquiro, Rome)
Pie Jesu, from Requiem by Gabriel Fauré
Suzy Robinson soprano 