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The Portrait Players are a UK-based trio bringing 17th and 18th century music to modern audiences.
Described in its debut concert as ‘beguiling’, The Portrait Players is an all-female trio whose engaging programmes are inspired by historical characters. Featuring Claire Ward (soprano), Kristiina Watt (theorbo/lute) and Miriam Nohl (cello/viola da gamba), the trio, founded in January 2023, has quickly established a busy concert schedule across the UK.
Graduates of the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music, the three members of The Portrait Players each lead busy freelance lives and work with many of Europe’s leading orchestras and ensembles including The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Academy of Ancient Music, La Nuova Musica, The English Concert and The Monteverdi Choir.
At this concert The Portrait Players will explore English repertoire inspired by Shakespeare and his contemporaries such as Dryden, Jonson and Sucking in their programme Ye Gentle Spirits.
The programme will include music by Lawes, Johnson, Eccles and Purcell.
‘Hark! Hark! The lark’ Robert Johnson (c.1583-1633) from Cymbeline (Shakespeare)
‘Come hither you that love’ from The Captain (Beaumont&Fletcher) Johnson
‘Care-charming sleep’ from The Valentinian (Fletcher)
‘Have you seen but a bright lily grow’ from The Devil’s an ass (Jonson) Johnson
‘Willow Song’ from Othello (Shakespeare) Anon
‘Woods, rocks and mountains’ from Cardenio (Shakespeare) Johnson
‘No, no, fair heretick’ from Aglaur (Suckling) Henry Lawes (1595-1662)
‘Gather ye rosebuds’ from Hesperides (Herrick) William Lawes (1602-1645)
‘Hero and Leander’ Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666)
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‘Dear Pretty Youth’ Henry Purcell (1659-1695) from The Tempest (Dryden/D’Avenant)
‘I burn’ from Don Quixote (d’Urfey) John Eccles (1668-1735)
‘Ye gentle spirits of the air’ from The Fairy Queen (anon) Purcell
‘If love’s a sweet passion’
‘I am come to lock all fast’
‘The Plaint’ from The Fairy Queen (anon) Purcell
‘Rosy Bowers’ from Don Quixote (d’Urfey) Purcell
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