Mr Milton and his Music
in association with Milton's Cottage
Saturday 2nd July from 6.00pm
“Lap me in soft Lydian Aires,
Married to immortal verse”
John Milton, L’Allegro
An evening of readings and music evoking the sounds of John Milton’s youth with works by his father and his contemporaries and settings of his work by Handel and Parry.
Part 1 - In the garden of Milton’s Cottage
John Milton Senior (1653 – 1647) Fair Orian, in the morn
Reading: “Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie” (from Arcades)
John Farmer (1570 – 1605) You pretty flowers
Reading: “When such Music sweet” (from On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity)
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers
Michael East (1580- 1648) What doth my pretty darling?
RL Pearsall (1795-1856) List! Lady be not coy (from Comus)
Reading: “To walk the studious Cloisters pale” (from Il Penseroso)
John Milton Senior (1653 – 1647) Fair Orian, in the morn
Reading: “Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie” (from Arcades)
John Farmer (1570 – 1605) You pretty flowers
Reading: “When such Music sweet” (from On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity)
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers
Michael East (1580- 1648) What doth my pretty darling?
RL Pearsall (1795-1856) List! Lady be not coy (from Comus)
Reading: “To walk the studious Cloisters pale” (from Il Penseroso)
Part 2 in the Parish Church
Martin Peerson (1571 – 1651) Man dreame no more
Reading: “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon” (from Samson Agonistes)
GF Handel (1685 – 1759) Total Eclipse and O first created beam (from Samson)
GF Handel Or let the merry bells (from L’Allegro)
GF Handel Happy, happy, happy plains (from Comus)
Peter Gritton Ring out ye Crystal Spheres
Reading: “Heav’n rung with Jubilee” (from Paradise Lost Book 4)
Sir CHH Parry (1848 – 1918) Towered cities (from L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso)
Sir CHH Parry Blest Pair of Sirens
Martin Peerson (1571 – 1651) Man dreame no more
Reading: “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon” (from Samson Agonistes)
GF Handel (1685 – 1759) Total Eclipse and O first created beam (from Samson)
GF Handel Or let the merry bells (from L’Allegro)
GF Handel Happy, happy, happy plains (from Comus)
Peter Gritton Ring out ye Crystal Spheres
Reading: “Heav’n rung with Jubilee” (from Paradise Lost Book 4)
Sir CHH Parry (1848 – 1918) Towered cities (from L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso)
Sir CHH Parry Blest Pair of Sirens
