Grounds for Exchange
A programme tracing musical dialogue across seventeenth-century Europe, where ideas travel between Italy and England and take on new forms in the process. The emerging Italian style, shaped by basso continuo, expressive melody, and bold instrumental writing, finds echoes in England, where it is absorbed into older traditions of consort music, ayres, and dance. Shared foundations such as grounds and variation forms reveal both a common language and distinct approaches to structure, character, and expression. Moving between contrast and connection, the programme reflects a period of exchange in which styles are not simply adopted, but reimagined in new cultural settings.
Programme
c. 90 minutes of music
Maurizio Cazzati - Trattenimenti per camera - Ballo delle Ombre
Claudio Monteverdi - “Voglio di vita uscir” SV 337
Tarquinio Merula - Il quarto libro delle canzoni da suonare - Canzon ottava ‘La Cavagliera’
Claudio Monteverdi - “Ohimè ch’io cado”, SV 316
Andrea Falconieri - Il primo libro di canzone, sinfonie - La suave melodia
Antonia Bembo - “Habbi pietà di me”
Marco Uccellini - Sinfonie Boscarecie - Symphonia Trigesima Quarta “A gran battaglia”
Tarquinio Merula - Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna “Hor ch’è tempo di dormire “
Andrea Falconieri - Folias echa para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla de Carallenos
- Interval -
Henry Purcell - “She loves and she confesses”
John Playford - The English Dance Master - Daphne
Henry Lawes - Selected Ayres and Dialogies, book 3 - “Have you e’er seen the morning sun?”
Matthew Locke - The Little Consort - Suite No. 3 in D minor
William Lawes - Ayres and Dialogues, Book 2 - “I’m sick of love”
Henry Purcell - Sonata No. 6 in G minor Z. 807
William Lawes - “Gather ye rosebuds whale ye may
Anonymous - Johnny Cock thy Beaver
Nicholas Lanier - “No more shall meads be deck’d with flowers”
Anonymous - “John Come Kiss Me Now” - arr. Variations
Performers
Bellot Ensemble - New Generation Baroque Ensemble