BBC Proms 2020 Season -  Stile Antico and Fretwork celebrate a Shakespearean anniversary [2016] (320kbps .mp3)



In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.



Today's concert, introduced by Petroc Trelawny, comes from 2016, when vocal ensemble Stile Antico and viol consort Fretwork combined to celebrate the 400th anniversary year of the death of England’s great bard, William Shakespeare. Their programme contrasts music by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with new settings from Nico Muhly and Composer in Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Huw Watkins. In the words of Shakespeare himself, ‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music creep in our ears …’



01. Morley - It was a lover and his lass

01a. Introduction to the Stile Antico prom

02. Byrd - O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth

02a. Introduction to Byrd and Watkins

03. Byrd - Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

04. Watkins, Huw - The Phoenix and the Turtle

05. Byrd - Fantasia a 5, 'Two parts in one in the fourth above’

05a. Introduction to Ramsay, Tomkins and Byrd

06. Tomkins - Be strong and of a good courage

07. Ramsey - Sleep, fleshly birth

08. Byrd - Browning a 5, 'The leaves be green’

08a. Introduction to Byrd and Johnson

09. Johnson, Robert - Full fathom five

10. Muhly, Nico - Gentle sleep

10a. Introduction to Muhly, Gibbons and Wilbye

11. Gibbons - In nomine No 1

12. Wilbye - Draw on, sweet night



Fretwork

Stile Antico



(From the BBC Proms, 15 August 2016)