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Lucie Skeaping explores the concept of liberty and asks if we want to be enchained by love. Or find eternal escape through death? With music by Byrd, Barbara Strozzi and Handel.

At a time when our own freedoms are being restored, Lucie Skeaping explores the concept of liberty. Freedom from or freedom to? Do we want to be enchained by love? Or find release through that ultimate escape, death? What does classical myth tell us, and religious belief? All the big ideas are here, with music including Byrd, Barbara Strozzi and Handel.

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Judas Maccabeus: Come ever-smiling liberty

    Singer: Lisa Saffer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Anon.

    Lost is my liberty

    Performer: Anthony Rooley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Nicolas Gombert

    Media vita in morte sumus

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • CYPRES.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV.639

    Performer: Bernard Foccroulle.
    • RICERCAR.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wenn wir in hochsten Noten sein BWV.641

    Performer: Marie Rouquié. Performer: Etienne Floutier.
    • PAN CLASSICS.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Liberta: Non ci lusinghi piu

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • THOROFON.

  • Francesca Caccini

    La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina: Per la piu vaga e bella

    Ensemble: La Villanella Basel.
    • Ramee.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Andromeda liberata: Sovvente il sole

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Armide: Ah! si la liberte

    Singer: Noémi Rime. Ensemble: La Chapelle Royale. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Armide: Act 5; Passecaille (Divertissement)

    Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • ALPHA.

  • William Byrd

    Walsingham (Have with you to Walsingham) MB.7.8

    Performer: Davitt Moroney.
    • HYPERION.

  • William Byrd

    Quomodo cantabimus

    Choir: Gallicantus. Conductor: Gabriel Crouch.
    • SIGNUM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Israel in Egypt: Sing ye to the Lord

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen.
    • COLLINS DIGITAL.

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  • Sun 23 May 2021 14:00
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