Elisabeth Hetherington & Emma Huijsser

Elisabeth Hetherington & Emma Huijsser

Outrageous and improper? In 1568, Maddalena Casulana did something unprecedented: she was the first woman to publish her own music, with a challenging message to all the men who thought they had a monopoly on talent. Price winning soprano Elisabeth Hetherington and harpist Emma Huijsser follow Casulana along the musical staves she dedicated to Isabella de Medici: fellow musician, supporter of artistic excellence, and patroness of the arts in Renaissance Florence.

Programme

• Maddalena Casulana

  Morir non può il mio cuore

  fl. 1566-83
• Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

  O maria tu dulcis

  1602-1676/78

• ***

• Lucia Quinciani

  Udite lagrimisi spirti

  fl. c1611
• Francesca Campana

  S’io ti guardo ti sdegni

  d1665

• ***

• Anonymous

  Toccata per l’elevatione

  15th century
• Maddalena Casulana

  Vagh’ amorosi augelli

• ***

• Claudia Sessa

  Occhi io vissi

  c1570-1613/19
• Maddalena Casulana

  O notte, o ciel, o piaggie, o monti!

• Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana

  O magnum mysterium

  1590-1662

• ***

• Luzzasco Luzzaschi

  Toccata del quarto tuono

  1545-1607
• Barbara Strozzi

  L’eracito Amoroso

  1619-1677

• ***

• Settimia Caccini

  Due luci ridenti

  1591-c1660
• Francesca Caccini

  Maria dolce maria

  1587-1641
• Maddalena Casulana

  Io d’orate frond’e

• ***

• Donatella Galletti (Alessia Aldobrandini)

  Passacaglia in omaggio al Sig JJS

  1970* (c1702)
• Rosa Giacinta Badalla

  Non plangete
  
  Programme subject to change

  c1660-c1710

Musicians

• Elisabeth Hetherington soprano
• Emma Huijsser harp