Utwory na płycie:

• O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca, z 574)
• L’Eraclito amoroso, Op. 2 No. 14
• Prélude
• Restless in thought (from She Ventures, and He Wins)
• Thy hand, Belinda (from Dido and Aeneas, z 626)
• When I am laid in earth (‘Dido's Lament’, from Dido and Aeneas, z 626)
• Battle Cry - I. Boudicca
• Battle Cry - II. Philomela in the forest
• Battle Cry - III. A singer’s ode to Sappho
• Battle Cry - IV. Marietta
• Preludio V (Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarone)
• La travagliata, Op. 2 No. 11
• Lamento d’Arianna
• Sarabande
• An Evening Hymn, z 193

Henry Purcell:
O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca, z 574)
Dido’s Lament (from Dido and Aeneas, z 626) (arr. Toby Carr)
An Evening Hymn, z 193

Barbara Strozzi:
L’Eraclito amoroso, Op. 2 No. 14
La travagliata, Op. 2 No. 11

Robert de Visée:
Prélude (MS Vaudry de Saizenay)
Sarabande (MS Vaudry de Saizenay)

John Eccles:
Restless in thought (from She Ventures, and He Wins)

Owain Park:
Battle Cry

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger:
Preludio V (Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarone)

Claudio Monteverdi:
Lamento d’Arianna

This powerful yet understated recital of modern and seventeenth-century works aims to revisit but also to re-balance the obsession of earlier music with female abandonment and lament.

The stories of women such as Dido and Ariadne have been told and retold throughout history. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston reconsiders the assumed helplessness of those often seen as being left behind by male adventure and success.

A recent work commissioned for Charlston from the composer Owain Park further takes up the challenge of giving ‘abandoned women’ their own platform, as well as exploring new possibilities for an instrumental pairing – that of voice and theorbo – that remains little explored in contemporary music.

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Recorded on 29-30 October and 1 November 2021 in Crichton Collegiate Church, Midlothian.