Solo programmes
NOTES TO A
SMALL ISLAND - Italian and French lute music imported into to 17th century
England. This is a tuneful programme which appealed to audiences in
Newcastle, Southampton and Swaledale, in summer 2006.
THE JACOBEAN LUTE - personalities from the mysterious Cuthbert Hely to the
murderous Jaques Gaultier and Shakespeare’s in-house composer, Robert
Johnson. Devised for the Basel Lute series, February 2007.
LATE NIGHT LUTE -
Scots tunes, French sonatas and the famous Bach chaconne for violin,
arranged for lute in a programme devised for the Ribchester Festival, June
2006.
Song recitals
With Robin Blaze
CAVALIER SONGWRITERS HENRY AND WILLIAM LAWES - Performed and
enthusiastically received in summer 2006 from Swaledale to Goettingen.
ELIZABETH and ESSEX - first performance in Buxton, July 2007.
Robin and Liz have a number of other programmes including Purcell and Handel, and an Italian programme entitled Saints and Sinners, with Mark Levy on viol and Gary Cooper on harpsichord.
Mark Padmore
Liz performed songs from Robert Dowland’s A Musicall Banquet, 1610, in York
in July 2006. this was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. They are recording an
album of John Dowland which will also include music by Benjamin Britten, for
Hyperion, in Spring 2007.
Carolyn Sampson
Carolyn Sampson and Liz will perform a programme of music sung by
Restoration divas, by Purcell and his contemporaries, at the Boston Early
Music Festival, in June 2007. Their recording of Purcell with Laurence
Cummings, Anne-Marie Lasla and a group of strings, for Bis, will be out next
year.
Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge and Liz will add settings of John Donne to their programme of
Dowland songs, at the Barbican in Oct 2007.
James Gilchrist
James Gilchrist will feature in a number of new programmes at
the planning stage, following successful appearances at the Brimingham
Shakespeare institute, the South Bank, and the Yale Center for British Art,
in 2006.
Sebastian Comberti, Ruth Alford and Liz
Sebastian Comberti, Ruth Alford and Lizhave a new programme
including works by Tricklir and Zamboni. And they really are unjustly
neglected…they’ll include some of the more well-known sonatas by Boccherini.
First performance Brightlingsea, Jan 2007.
Concordia
Concordia will be playing mixed consort music in Versailles
(2nd June 2007) and Dowland’s Lachrymae in Potsdam (21st june 2007).
Future projects at the Wigmore Hall are also in the
pipeline.