2025 Festival: Boreas Quartett Bremen

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Shakespeare in Love

The Golden Age of English Consort Music

Boreas Quartett Bremen

Jin-Ju Baek, Elisabeth Champollion, Julia Fritz & Luise Manske, recorders with Kathryn Montoya, recorder Caleb Mayo, narrator

“Per divina bellezza”

Christe qui lux es I

William Byrd

Christe qui lux es II (ca. 1540–1623)

From Romeo & Juliet, Act II, Scene ii

William Shakespeare “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?” (1564–1616)

In Nomine “Blamles” Christopher Tye (ca. 1505–ca. 1572)

“Seldom seen”

Satyr’s Dance

Sonnet 130: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…”

In Nomine “Seldom sene”

In Nomine “Howld fast”

Sonnet 129: “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame…”

In Nomine “Trust”

Robert Johnson (ca. 1583–1633)

Shakespeare

Tye

Tye

Shakespeare

Tye

In Nomine “Free from all” Tye

“Come sweet love”

Paduan — Volta

Thomas Simpson (1582–1628)

Sonnet 128: “How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st…” Shakespeare

Browning my Dear (a5) Byrd

From Romeo & Juliet, Act III, Scene ii Shakespeare “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds…”

In Nomine “Re la re” Tye

Rubum quem Tye

Intermission

“The image of Melancholy” Lachrimae antiquae

John Dowland Lachrimae antiquae novae (1563–1626)

Sonnet 64: “When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d…”

Shakespeare

In Nomine “My death bedde” Tye

Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Shakespeare

In Nomine “Weepe no more” Tye

“The Fairie-Round”

Lullabie

From The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene i

Anthony Holborne (ca. 1545–1602)

Shakespeare “How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!”

The Fairie-Round Holborne

From The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene i Shakespeare “I am never merry when I hear sweet music.”

In Nomine “I come” Tye

Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds…” Shakespeare

In Nomine “Crye” Tye

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