“DIDO REIMAGINED”

New England Premiere

Mark Steinberg, violin | Serena Canin, violin| Misha Amory, viola | Nina Lee, cello

PROGRAM

Henry Purcell                     Oh let me weep, from The Fairy Queen, Z629 (arr. Mark Steinberg)

Purcell                                  Fantasia a 4, in B-flat Major, Z736

Matthew Locke Suite No. 2 for four viols in D minor/Major: Fantazie

John Dowland                   Come again, sweet love doth now invite (arr. Stephen Prutsman)

Locke                                    Suite No. 2: Courante

Dowland                              Can she excuse my wrongs (arr. Prutsman)

Locke                                    Suite No. 2: Ayre

Dowland                              Weep you no more, sad fountains (arr. Prutsman)

Locke                                    Suite No. 2: Saraband

Thomas Tomkins              Alman 

William Byrd                       Though Amaryllis dance in green

Robert Johnson                The Witty Wanton

Purcell                                  Fantasia a 4, in c minor, Z738

Purcell                                  When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament) from Dido and Aeneas, Z626

-intermission-

“Dido Reimagined” a response to Purcell’s “Lament”

a monodrama

for Dawn Upshaw & the Brentano String Quartet

music by Melinda Wagner

libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann