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Saturday 6th July, 2013 7.30
£8 includes programme & refreshments (members reductions)
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All Saints Church, Leicester
All Saints Church, Leicester, is a redundant Anglican church in High Cross Street, Leicester, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2]
The Church may be found in Highcross Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1 4PH
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Lachrimae Consort
The Lachrimae Consort, directed by Mike Ashley.
John Dowland's music for solo lute is the finest of his time and his songs are some of the greatest written in the English language. His consort music for 5 viols and lute is just as extraordinary, although not so frequently performed today. Based on his earlier and most famous composition "The Lachrimae Pavane" for lute (which he also published as the song "Flow my tears") the sequence of seven pavanes which begin his 1605 publication "Lachrimae" is astonishing in the emotional depth achieved and the compositional skill well in advance of his time.
This concert will include this sequence of "Seaven Passionate Pavans", together with some of Dowland’s greatest songs, and other fine consort pieces from the "Lachrimae" collection.
“As always, with the Lachrimae Consort everything was very well researched. The six members of the Consort play with impressive unanimity and produce a pleasingly mellifluous sound.”
Leicester Mercury, 2009
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