We’re delighted to be returning to the Newbury Spring Festival for an intimate performance at Highclere Castle.

This specially-curated programme is inspired by four of the Garden Follies at Highclere Castle – The Temple of Diana, The Walled Garden, The Etruscan Temple and Heaven’s Gate – arching the line of a love story from first meeting to final parting.

Programme
The Temple of Diana
John Wilbye – The Lady Oriana
Claudio Monteverdi – Quel augellin che canta
Orlando de Lassus – Bonjour mon coeur
Carlo Gesualdo – A voi, mentre il mio core
John Dowland – Come again, come sweet love

The Walled Garden
Hildegard von Bingen – O virga viridissima
Rodrigo de Ceballos – Hortus conclusus
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Vidi speciosam
Orlando de Lassus – Veni in hortum meum
Malcolm Archer – Cloths of Heaven

The Etruscan Temple
Fransisco Guerrero – Surge, propera amica mea
Carlo Gesualdo – Luci serene e chiare
Orlando de Lassus – Veni dilecte mi
Eric Whitacre – This Marriage
Claudio Monteverdi – Baci soavi, e cari
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Osculetur me

Heaven’s Gate
Claudio Monteverdi – Lamento d’Arianna
John Dowland – His golden locks
Gerald Finzi – I have loved flowers that fade
John Ireland – Twilight Night