To conduct this eclectic program, Arion is delighted to welcome French lutenist Thomas Dunford, “the Eric Clapton of the lute,” according to BBC Magazine. Conceived by our guest conductor as a voyage through works from Purcell to Bernstein, in which Quebec soprano Marianne Lambert’s lustrous voice and charismatic presence are sure to delight.
John Dowland
“Come Again” (First Book of Songs or Ayres)
Lachrimae
King of Denmark’s Galliard
“Now, O, now, I needs must part” (First Book of Songs or Ayres)
Henry Purcell
The Fairy-Queen, Z.629 (excerpts)
“When I am laid in earth” (Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626)
Georg Frideric Handel
Suite no. 4 in D minor, HWV 437 (excerpts)
“Guardian Angels” (The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71)
“No, no I’ll take no less” (Semele, HWV 58)
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story (excerpts)
