Wigmore Hall Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom

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Monday 24 November 2025

20:00

On demand from Monday 24 November 2025 20:00
to Friday 20 February 2026 23:59

Programme

Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)	Lamento d'Arianna: Lasciatemi morire
Dowland, John (1563-1626)	Melancholy Galliard
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677)	L'Eraclito amoroso
Johnson, Robert (1583-1633)	Away delights
Dowland, John (1563-1626)	In darkness let me dwell
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677)	Sete pur fastidioso
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	While Thyrsis, wrapt in downy sleep (A Pastoral Coronation Song) Z437
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677)	Amor dormiglione
Dowland, John (1563-1626)	Time's eldest son
Locke, Matthew (1621-1677)	The delights of the bottle
Caccini, Settimia (1591-1638)	Già sperai, non spero or più
Blow, John (1649-1708)	Lysander I pursue in vain
Eccles, John (1668-1735)	I burn
Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674)	Apritevi Inferni
Rasi, Francesco (1574-1621)	O che felice giorno
Caccini, Giulio (1551-1618)	Odi Euterpe
Ferrabosco I, Alfonso (1543-1588)	Galliard
Rosseter, Philip (1567-1623)	When Laura smiles
Anonymous	This merry pleasant spring
Ferrari, Benedetto (1603-1681)	Amanti io vi sò dire

Performers

Nardus Williams	Soprano
Elizabeth Kenny	Lute

Nardus Williams, winner of the Rising Talent award at the 2022 International Opera Awards, dives headlong into the world of the Four Humours, physical properties believed to govern human behaviour from ancient times until the 1850s. Her programme encompasses arias by Settimia Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, among the first women to forge successful careers in music.

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