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Breath – Elizabethan songs and Renaissance madrigals

Ventus Ensemble
Breath – Elizabethan songs and Renaissance madrigals

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Overview

EARLY MUSIC

Ventus Ensemble presents a programme based on Elizabethan songs and madrigals of well-known Renaissance composers. The works have been treated and arranged by the composer Kornilios Selamsis, each one of which is entwined in an original composition, in an on-going dialogue with the original.

– John Dowland: Toss not my soul & Would my conceit
– Thomas Morley: Leave now mine eyes lamenting
– Alfonso Ferrabosco II: Hear me O God
– William Byrd: Ye sacred Muses
– Henry Purcell: Dido’s lament

Kornilios Selamsis arrangement, original composition

Elena Krasaki soprano

Ventus Ensemble
Conductor: Yiorgos Ziavras

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