Music of Romantic Desire
An exploration of the power and passion of romantic desire, invoking Aphrodite — the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Featuring flirtatious English madrigals, ardent German partsongs, steamy Italian and French opera duets, provocative twentieth-century settings of Shakespeare by Britten, Finzi, Kodaly, and Vaughan Williams, sensual selections by Gwyneth Walker and Paul Carey, and more!
Jude Navari, Conductor
Edna Huelsenbeck, Assistant Conductor
Heather Heise, Piano
Program
- Caro! Bella! – George Frideric Handel
- Pur ti miro, pur ti godo – Claudio Monteverdi
- Four Arms, Two Necks, One Wreathing – Thomas Weelkes
- It was a Lover and Her Lad – Thomas Morley
- Thus Sings My Dearest Jewel – Thomas Weelkes
- Le Tre Gratie a Venere – Barbara Strozzi
- “Ah, perdona al primo affetto” – Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Ständchen – Franz Schubert
- Love Songs from Liebeslieder-Walzer – Johannes Brahms
- Wie des Abends schöne Röte (Like the sunset’s crimson splendor)
- Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft (Bird in air will stray afar)
- Nein Geliebter, setze dich (Seat thyself, my dearest heart)
- Selections from Cantigas de Amigo – Paul Carey
- No puedo apartarme (I can’t give up)
- Moreno mío (My dark-skinned lover)
- Selections from Songs for Women’s Voices – Gwyneth Walker
- Love is a Rain of Diamonds
- I Will Be Earth
- It was a Lover and Her Lad – Gerald Finzi
- Fancy – Zoltán Kodály
- An Immorality – Aaron Copland