In Angel’s Wede: Music For Mary Queen of Scots - The Baltimore Consort

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Saturday, January 27th, 2024
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Music from Scotland, France, England and Italy with a captivating narration by Emmy Award winner (and television and radio personality) Robert Aubry Davis.

The short life of Mary Queen of Scots (1542–1587) was the stuff of great drama. Why has this sixteenth-century Scottish queen captivated us for centuries? The layers of romance, deceit, political maneuvering, and the long Catholic and Protestant feud are all told in Mary’s tale.

Program:

Prelude

The gowans are gay – John Forbes, Songs and Fancies, 1662

Adew Dundee – Skene MS c. 1630–33

Youth in France

Reading: Fair flower of fifteen springs (Ronsard)

C’est moys de May – Clément Janequin (1485–1558)

Queen’s Pavane and Gaillarde – Estienne du Tertre, VIIme livre de danceries, 1557

J’ay suis desheritée – Pierre Cadéac, Quart livre …chansons nouvelles, 1540

Branles d’escosse – Estienne du Tertre

Reading: Dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health… (Arbeau)

A suite of branles – Thoinet Arbeau, Orchésographie, 1589

Reading: Ronsard, if your good, gentle-natured heart (Mary)

Mignonne allons voir si la rose – Ronsard, pub. Jehan Chardavoine, Voix de ville, 1576

Gaillarde d’escosse – Pierre Phalèse, Liber primus leviorum carminum, 1572

Bransle d’escosse – Estienne du Tertre

Ma petite colombelle – Ronsard, Jehan Chardavoine, Voix de ville, 1576

Intermission

Back home in Scotland

Lady Cassilles Lilt – AnonymousAlace, I ly alon – Anon. Skene MS

What mightie motion Anon. – Thomas Wode’s Partbooks c.1562-1590

Reading: For who can denie… (John Knox)

Our Father God celestiall – Pierre Cadéac (fl.1538–1558)

Lutenist, David Riccio, The Pope’s “spy”

La Spagna – Francesco da Milano (1497–1543)

Morir non può il mio core – Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590)

Fantasia No. 34 – Francesco da Milano

Imprisonment and Execution in England

Reading: O Lord my God, receive my prayer (Mary)

In Angel’s Wede – William Byrd (ca.1540–1623)

Reading: Alive a Queen, now dead I am a Saint (Robert Southwell)

A Scot’s Tune – Jane Pickeringe Lute Book, ca.1617

Green grows the rashes – Anon., Balcarres Lute Book 1692–94

Musicians:

Mary Ann Ballard

Mark Cudek, cittern, bass viol

Larry Lipkis, viols, recorders

Ronn McFarlane, lute

Mindy Rosenfeld, winds

Danielle Svonavec, soprano

with Robert Aubry Davis, narrator

Doors open at 6:45; pre-concert talk at 7:00.

Youth and students are admitted free at the door.