'one of the most beautiful and pure soprano
voices on earth'
Eric Whitacre, composer, on Grace Davidson
Star Cross'd Lovers:
Songs of love & devotion
Friday 21 June, 7.00pm (no interval)
Songs of true love and devotion by Campion, Dowland, Humfrey and Purcell performed with extraordinary purity of sound in the exquisite round of St Stephen’s Walbrook by renowned baroque specialist soprano Grace Davidson, accompanied by lutenist David Miller. With its circular, white marble Henry Moore altar bathed in the light of a lantern-like dome, this church provides one of the City’s most spectacular venues.
John Dowland Awake, sweet love, thou art return'd; Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Thomas Campion Never weather-beaten Saile; Author of Light
John Dowland Preludium; The Frog Galliard
John Dowland Now, oh now I needs must part; Come away, come sweet love
Anon Miserere, my Maker
John Dowland A Fancy; In this trembling shadow
Pelham Humfrey Sleep downy sleep, come close mine eyes; Hymn to God the Father
Henry Purcell Not all my torments; If music be the food of love
Henry Purcell Sleep, Adam, Sleep, and take thy rest; An Evening Hymn
Grace Davidson, soprano
David Miller, lute and theorbo