Laura Coppinger (soprano) & David Palmer (piano)

Soprano Laura Coppinger and pianist David Palmer perform Libby Larsen’s ‘Try me, Good King’, a song cycle setting the last known words of the wives of Henry VIII, amongst retrospective settings of poets and playwrights from the Tudor period.

Laura Coppinger (soprano)
David Palmer (piano)

Programme
Come o Come my life’s delight – Clarke/Campion
Weep you no more – Dowland/Clarke
6 Elizabethan Songs – Argento:
Spring – Nashe
Sleep – Daniel
Winter – Shakespeare
Dirge – Shakespeare
Diaphenia – Constable
Hymn – Johnson
[Commission]
An Sylvia – Shakespeare/Schubert
Ständchen, D 889 – Shakespeare/Schubert
Ophelia’s Song – Shakespeare/Maconchy
La mort d'Ophélie - Shakespeare/Berlioz
Try me Good King – Libby Larsen
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Katherine Howard