Fringe: Alexander Thow & Augustin Cornwall-Irving
This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026.
Alexander Thow and Augustin Cornwall-Irving began performing together in 2023. Since then they have performed at venues including Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, Trinity College OCR, St Peter’s Belsize Park and St Olave’s, Hart Street. Their programmes explore the juxtaposition of the Elizabethan penchant for melancholy with the cheerful frivolity that both permeate the music of the English lute song composers, as well as delving into the continental repertoire upon which they modelled their craft.
Programme
-
John Dowland
All ye, whom love or fortune hath betraid
Can she excuse
Now, O now I needs must part
(from: The First Booke of Songs, London 1597)1563-1626 -
I saw my lady weepe
Flow my tears
Sorrow stay
Fine knacks for ladies
(from: The Second Book of Songes, 1600) -
Lend your eares to my sorrow good people
Me me and none but me
Weepe you no more sad fountains
(from: The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, 1603) -
The King of Denmark’s Galliard
(from: Lachrimae, London 1605) -
Lasso vita mia
(from: A Pilgrimes Solace, London 1612)
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Alexander Throw countertenor
- Augustin Cornwall-Irving lute
