Oxford Festival of the Arts

A Mortal Muse

Dowland’s Foundry

Tickets £18

In 1606, English composer and lutenist John Danyel dedicated his only songbook to a wildly unconventional muse – his brilliant young student. Songs to Anne Greene are a treasure of Jacobean art, telling an unorthodox love story with uncommon brilliance, humanity, and wry wit. Interlacing Danyel’s works with those of his famous playwright brother Samuel Danyel, and of their contemporaries John Dowland and William Shakespeare, as well as a new arrangement of William Byrd’s Ye Sacred Muses, Renaissance music specialists Dowland’s Foundry will create a colourful and dramatic performance in the stunning setting at Magdalen College.

Dowland’s Foundry: Gwendolen Martin, soprano, Clemmie Franks, alto, Daniel Thomson, tenor, Timothy Dickinson, bass, and Sam Brown, lute.

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Dowland's Foundry encapsulate what Dowland called in a preface ‘The consent of speaking harmony’

Dame Emma Kirkby